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Hi there,
I so thoroughly loved your article about the hoosier cabinet. My grandmother owned one and I don’t know who inherited it. I also have loved vintage and antiques of all kinds, especially in the kitchen. I grew up in a house that had been built shortly after the civil war. When we moved into it in December of 1941 it still had gas lights throughout. These were gradually replaced with electric lights. We also had a water pump in the kitchen sink.
I was only 3 when we made that move so I’m surprised that I remember so much. I still have wrought iron brackets and holders for kerosene lamps that were removed from the walls of that house.
My neighbor, when I lived in oregon has a hoosier cabinet that is beautiful and I drooled over it everytime I was in her kitchen for a visit.
At my age (81) although I still dream of owning one of those cabinets, I doubt that I will.
BUT, I can always love reading and re-reading about yours.
Thanks so much for your pictures and your posting.
Suzanne

Hi Nicole,
Your Hoosier is beautiful!
I also have one I purchased from a local Bed and Breakfast in 1993. Mine is white with red trim and has many of the same features yours does.
My Hoosier has mainly been used in my kitchen, but there were a few years when I used it in my sewing room to store some of my quilting fabrics and notions.
Thanks for sharing the pictures of your Hoosier!
Bonnie, in Oregon

WOW! What a beautiful blessing. I am so happy for you. I have wanted a Hoosier cabinet for many years. You have it decorated beautifully.
I look forward to your monthly blog! Thanks for all you write. Keep inspired 🙂 Rose

I have an original Coppes Brothers and Zook Hoosier Cabinet made in Nappanee Indiana. It belonged to my great-grandmother. I have all the original cards with weights, measures, spices, things to know, etc that came with it. All spice racks, sugar ring, flour bin, cooling racks, bread drawer, etc are still there. Everything is perfect! My TREASURE!!! I’m 65 so you know it’s an antique. A beautiful piece in my open kitchen! I love your cabinet and all the glassware treasures you have in it! Just beautiful!!!! I’m a Hoosier Farmgirl born and raised in Leesburg Indiana, but living life in North Carolina now.

It looks in great shape. You really got a prize!

I also have a Hoosier cabinet, which of course I love. Mine does have the flour sifter. When my oldest grand daughter (now 22) was 18months old she loved ‘Splorin’ my kitchen as I cooked, washed dishes. One day I could not find her, then I saw the lower door on the Hoosier move, ever so slightly. She had found her perfect hiding place …until she went kerplop to the floor, when the thin bottom board have way. She was surprised, not hurt, but could not play in there until I fixed it. We also have an old icebox. It keeps my cup towels, table cloths, etc. Don’t you love the metal pull out top on your Hoosier?

I love the Hoosier have one in fact. How cute yours looks and glad you found one. I’ll share where mine is on blog for you to see. It was painted years and years ago has the sifter but it is now rusty. Love mine as well it was my well you can read about it if you want. Here…https://www.hibiscushouseblog.com/2011/10/traveling-hoosier-cabinet.html

What a great article! I love my Hoosier. We owned the Michigan Hoosier Company and built reproductions hoosiers years ago and I still have mine. Such wonderful memories.

I enjoyed reading about your “new” Hoosier cabinet. I wanted one for years, as I am an old soul as well! Finally several years ago I found my beautiful cabinet that is red and white, which I LOVE! Recently, I moved across country, from TN to MT! I was worried about it in the move but couldn’t bear to be without it. So we carefully packed it with the two parts separated. I am so thankful that I did since our condo is small but has the perfect place in the dining area of the open kitchen. I keep spices, baking powder and soda, and have it decorated with my husband’s grandmother’s wooden bread bowl, crock type bowls, and an old butter churn found in a barn in MT. I store almost all of my cast iron (which I have collected), and my small “appliances” such as two cheese graters and a cherry pitter that needs the enamel top to attach them to. When visitors come that is the first piece to usually get a comment and it takes them back to special memories. If I could I would attach a picture of my cabinet because it makes me smile each time I use it or look at it. When you mentioned being at the “right” place to find your cabinet, that is how I have felt about my cabinet as well as about several of my other pieces, like a treadle machine and wooden flour bin. It’s funny how I can remember when and how my pieces came. I know you will enjoy your cabinet for many years as they are so versatile and “easy” to find things in. Do you ever notice how things get lost in built-in cabinets but not in this cabinet? 🙂

Love Hoosier cabinets – so handy and useful!

Like you, I’ve always wanted a Hoosier cabinet, but don’t know where I’d put it! However, I’m sure I would figure something out if I found a good deal. 🙂 What I really want is one that still has all the original parts, including the flour sifter, but those were often removed over the years since people weren’t really using them. Maybe one could be found and added back in.
I love yours, and am glad you got one with the feathered windows! That’s extra special, I think? And, I love your kitchen. 🙂
I must admit, though, that when I just saw the title of this, “Who Loves a Hoosier?”, I first thought you meant the people – like me, a born and bred Hoosier, still living in Indiana. 🙂

Hi! I inherited my grandmother’s Elwell Kitchen Cabinet, The tag also says Minneapolis, Minn. I believe Elwell was somehow involved with those who made their cabinets under the name of “Hoosier”. It it made of oak, has 2 metal lined drawers, along with a large storage area on the bottom portion, along with 6 smaller drawers, and a large bread board. The top portion has storage inside the 2 doors, and, shelving along the back. The top portion has a smaller bread board, a spice cabinet, a roll-down compartment for sugar storage, and, 6 smaller drawers. My mother paid someone to make the brass pulls shiny bright. They married in Iowa in 1919, spent some time in Moville, Illinois while my grandfather was studying to be a dentist at Northwestern University, ended up in McHenry County, North Dakota. I’m not sure when or where they bought this cabinet. My mother told me that, when she was a child, my grandmother would remove the bottom middle drawers (2) and all the pots and pans from the storage area below those. My mother could then crawl into the pots space, closing the door behind herself, and play “store” through the cavities left by the removed drawers. My grandmother had reserved empty food boxes and tins for my mom to use when”customers” came to make a purchase. I have enjoyed having this cabinet in my home for many years. I am 71 years old, now. I do hope that one of my grandchildren will want this cabinet, in due time, and love it as we have loved it.

Nicole: There can always be two, one in kitchen, one in sewing room. I had one in my younger years but down sizing is hard in getting rid of all the beautiful furniture. Enjoy while you can. Love Ann

I love the story, also I previously contacted you as I grew up in the Palouse country and lived just a few miles from Moscow. I now have the lovely position as caretaker in a heritage house in Langley B.C. I have found many lovely antiques for the old house (built in 1888) but no hoosier.
Sandra

I enjoyed your article on the Hoosiers and can certainly appreciate your excitement in having one. I have four, yes four, that I bought in the 70’s and 80’s and have moved them many times. They have served me well in various rooms in my homes throughout the years.
My regret is that now, hardly anyone wants them, so they will probably be a very cheap item in my estate sale!

Nicole, I too had always wanted a Hoosier and year before last I found one on Facebook’s Marketplace. We, my son and I, had been looking for a long time for one and one day when I got on Facebook and went to Marketplace, the first picture there was of a white with red trim and black knobs Hoosier. I had been having trouble walking, but when I saw the Hoosier I almost ran to where my son was and told him to come and look at what I had found. The excitement flowed that day and we contacted the owner who was having a yard sale about 60 miles away in Indiana. We told him we would be there with our trailer the same day to buy it and bring it home to our unfinished house. Our house was not completely done yet and I always wanted white cabinets with black knobs, and this Hoosier fit right in with my ideas. It has on the top half, two long doors, one with shelves, the other where a flour sifter bin used to be, and a small glass front door between them and below that an open area where I store my cookbooks, and below the doors are two small drawers on each side. The lower half has the pull out table top of white porcelain, with the red trim. On each side are two pull out drawers that are as long as the depth of the cabinet, great for storing numerous items, and between them the bread drawer with the metal inside that does keep our bread from spoiling as it used to in a wooden bread cabinet. Below those drawers are two doors that open up to a half shelf and a full shelf which holds many of my baking dishes. This was my first piece in my kitchen and we now have all white cabinets with round black knobs and on either side of my vintage kitchen sink are two glass front cabinets that hold my glasses, plates and bowls for everyday use. I also, because of your blog about vintage treadle sewing machines was able to purchase one from the Habitat Restore the same year. My son also collects cookie jars and the top of the Hoosier holds five of them. I also was able to find an older metal wine rack that holds five wine bottles and has a handle and I use it to hold our five rolling pins and it sits in the middle of my kitchen table until we have company, then I move it the Hoosier. I love reading all the blogs from Mary Jane’s Farm girls and especially those about vintage things.

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Thank You for this article……….MJW