I did a mosaic of this house a couple of months back, and got curious to find out more about this house. So this is what I found out.
This home was built in in 1880 and took 8 years to complete. In it's day, it had 14 rooms, all of which were large. The family that built it had 14 children, but 6 of them were grown and never lived in the home. It was very common in that time for Indians to come to the home and ask for food. The owners wife was continually baking bread, and when the Indians got the "whiff" of it, they would show up and take all that she had. In those days, they had to travel by wagon to Nebraska for flour, so it was a rather precious commodity. This house is located 3 miles from me, and MY house is 25 miles more/less to Nebraska. That was a long trip by wagon for flour! I'll have more information on another post, later on! Look at the awesome detail UNDER the eves of this house! Amazing!
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The above items on top of the cabinet that holds grandma's salt and pepper shaker collection is a photo and a trophy. If you look real close, the trophy says 1976. The man in the photo on the rightwas my grandfather, and he won the trophy for best beard. It was for the Bi-centenniel, and he was SO proud. I love having things like that to sit around and remind me of the people I loved so much when I was growing up. I know it's not really a "tabletop", but close enough! Thanks for stopping by, and please leave a comment. I'm going to go visit the other TT participants at the below address:
My Darling Husband spray painted the back side of the mat in navy, which really made the blues in the photo stand out. Then I put it all together as you see below. I think it turned out really well, and was certainly worth all the money I put in to it! Ha! Can't wait to see how they like it. 
