Houses in America were originally heated by open fires in a fireplace. By the mid-1700s, cast-iron heating stoves were introduced. Many were “five plate” stoves made of five iron plates assembled as ...

Q: We have an old cast-iron, wood-burning cookstove purchased in the early 1970s. We were told at the time it was around 50 years old. Unfortunately, we don't have any place for it now. Our goal is to ...

Tonight, more than a century ago all the cooking was done on a wood stove, not an air fryer, or a microwave, but on beautiful pieces made of iron. It's rare to find one these days, and as Karen Meyers ...

We recently bought a house and there was a cast iron stove in the back yard on the deck. While the thing looks nice we have no use for it. We would like to get rid of it and, hopefully, at a fair ...

Pamela Higgins with her vintage Chambers stove, which dates back to the early 1950s, in the kitchen at her home in Yarmouth. Higgins has had the enamel-over-cast-iron stove for more than 40 years, and ...

When we were having the shell of our present home built the builder called us and said it was hard to work because of the cold weather. He told us he had an air tight wood stove he would install for a ...

Each week, Mansion Global tackles a topic with an elite group of designers from around the world who work on luxury properties. This week, we look at tips for designing with a wood-burning stove. Wood ...