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The Good Time Stove Company is nestled in the foothills of Western Massachusetts. The museum and showroom sits right on Rt 112. You can't miss the giant tin man. Surrounded by beautiful landscape architecture and forest, the showroom sits, waiting for visitors. Even without the visitors who live close enough to stop by, this building is constantly buzzing with activity for folks who have found their stove online. In this tour, you'll see the showroom as well as the spaces that facilitate the restoration and shipping process.
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In a barn a cluster of old veteran stoves wait their turn to enter the workshop where they'll be restored. Around back are a couple of rooms that these stoves enter as old and rusty artifacts. Here, the stoves are looked at very carefully. It may need welding. It may need paint and nickling. Perhaps there are missing parts. Richard and his crew are no strangers to these stoves. They'll know just what to do to revive any model. After some time in the workshop, they become as shiny and functional as the day they were born. Some are even modernized while in the shop. All stoves leave this room with the perfection and quality that Good Time Stove holds as their standard. You can almost hear the other stoves applaud when a new stove comes out of the workshop for the first time.
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| Antique wood/coal stoves are available with a traditional black cast iron finish and nickel trim or with a porcelain enamel finish with authentic turn-of-the-century colors. You'll see gas/wood combination stoves from the 1900-1920. These are include a wood burners, gas burners and an oven that can operate on gas or wood according to your needs and preferences. The retro gas stoves from the 1930's side by side comes in a very large variety of colors and sizes including compact apartment stove for small kitchen to the large double oven commercial range for larger kitchens and families. Any of the kitchen stoves that you see on our web site can be converted to use gas or electric power. |
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Cylinder Stoves and Base Burner Stoves are found all over the room. These are comparable in size to the potbellys, but are usually more decorative and often nickel clad. Right inside the front door is a room bursting at the seams with heating stoves. As you turn your head, each style makes itself known. The ornate and basic, large and small, each surround you as you take it all in like an antique car show. In the winter months, you'll smell the slight comforting trace of burning wood as one of the Cylinder Stoves keeps the building warm from the corner of this room.Potbelly Stoves were some of the most common and most useful stoves in history. They're simple and can hold a good amount of wood or coal.
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Parlor Stoves were also common. Very useful and generally pretty fancy too. You can fit plenty of wood inside these stoves and they look like a fine piece of furniture. Franklin Stoves are the ones that look like fireplaces. If you want a fireplace, but don't want to build a whole new house, Ben Franklin has your solution. These Box Stoves, up on the ledge, are the elders. They go back to the 1700's. They're small and simple. Made for small spaces.
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How do you move a stove across a continent? Very carefully! We carefully crate your stove and prepare it ready for the shipment.
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