84-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 18, 1995
Beauty For Ashes
(Continued from Pago B 2)
To her horror, flames were
shooting inside the car. Lucille
grabbed a large nearby fire exting
uisher and sprayed until the con
tents were empty.
The fire seemed to be complete
ly distinguished and Lucille signed
with relief, “That was a close call.”
No sooner had she breathed
those words than the whole car
burst into flames.
Lucille called the fire company,
but within minutes an explosion
rocked the garage, blew out the
kitchen windows, and the house
filled with boiling black smoke.
Lucille shut the doors that separ-
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Although everything
seemed destroyed at first
glance. These shelves and
drawer built into a wall
remained standing. Inside
the drawer were many
photographs protected
from the fire. It took a lot of
scraping and sanding to
restore the fire-ravaged
wood, but it’s a feature its
historic beauty.
ated the addition from the original
stone structure.
She grabbed her 81-year-old
widowed mother, Muriel Mack,
who lives with them. Lucille
begged her to stay outside while
she tried to rescue some heirlooms
from the smoke-filled house.
“It was wicked weather with ice,
snow, and wind,” Lucille said.
“And I had difficulty carrying
things outside.”
It was also difficult to think what
should be saved first. If she had
been able to think clearly, she said
that she would have saved the
registration papers kept on their
purebred herd and embryo trans
plants. But, she didn’t And, years
.of careful record-keeping on the
well-known Caenarvon Farms
herd were destroyed in the fire.
A hired man working in the bam
helped Lucille carry out an antique
rocker and a grandfather’s clock
that had been in the family for five
generations.
Then Lucille noticed her mother
was no longer outside. Frantically
Lucille screamed for her mother as
she searched throughout the
smoke-filled rooms on her
mother’s side of the house. She
found her with her arms filled with
clothes. In their terror to find their
way through the dense smoke, the
clothes were dropped.
Lucille placed her mother into a
parked vehicle near the bam. By
this time, it was too dangerous to
enter the house that was completed
engulfed in flames when the fire
company arrived.
Fire fighters had a difficult time
fighting the blaze because fire
crept between the open spaces
between the old structure and the
four additions. The roof caved in
and made it even more dangerous
for fire fighters.
Not only was the house destroy
ed, but a spacious family-room in
the basement ended up with 60,000
gallons of water poured into it.
Before the fire, the basement room
was considered the. most beautiful
part of the old house and the most
live-in area. It has not been rebuilt,
but an old hutch and many old dis
hes that were kept in the basement
were able to be salvaged.
“Friends washed and washed to
removed the smoke and grime
from those pieces,” Lucille said
Some quilts and clothing in
chests were blackened by smoke
but otherwise intact Much of this
was professionally cleaned, but
friends did wash and rewash items
for days to remove the smoke
damage.
The framed original deed was
scorched but was able to be
reframed and now hangs in the
hallway.
A friend also sorted through the
debris to salvage many old framed
photographs and pictures.
Although many still show smoke
and water damage, it only adds an
aged look to the portraits.
The former kitchen with its old
bam beams had been only 12 years
old when the fire destroyed it
Although Lucille regretted that the
old beams were destroyed by the
fire, the Stoltzfuses were pleased
that they had valuable old chestnut
wood stored in a bam. This wood
was used to build cupboards and
wainscoating for Andy’s office.
Before the fire, the family had
painstakingly remodeled the house
room by room until the last room
was completed. The Victorian
style house had wall papered
rooms.
“But I’m learning to like plain
walls,” Lucille said of the painted
dry wall.
“Another good thing that came
from the fire,” Lucille said with a
twinkle in her eye, “was that it got
rid of a lot of junk that several gen
erations had accumulated over the
years.”
Andy had been bom in the house
that was passed down through his
side of the family. The dairy farm
sets on 120 acres and adjoins the
farm where his brother Hves. Caer
narvon Farms is known for raising
genetic-purebred cattle where they
do a lot of flushing embryo work.
Many of the embryos have been
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These bay windows reflect the Victorian style of the home
that was originally built In 1785 and reconstructed in 1845
and again in 1994.
sold to Japan, France, England and
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While many unique family heir
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“Our greatest blessing still
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