There were 110 Type E houses. The houses on Argus Ave across from the recreation Center were type E houses. They had a living room, bedroom, bathroom, laundry room (actually it was part of the screen porch) and kitchen. There was an open porch in the front and a screened in porch in back. There were French doors between the bedroom and the back porch.  It wasn’t long before the screen porch was modified by putting walls and a window in.

The house was heated by an oil stove that was gravity feed. The fuel oil dripped onto gavel in the bottom and in the winter we would light it with a match. There were two 55 gallon drums of fuel oil near they alleyway behind the house. They gravity feed the stove. The living room and the bathroom were the only two rooms on the house that were heated. If the kitchen got cold mother would light the oven if she want already cooking biscuits. It was fueled by bottled gas (propane I assume). The gas bottles were near the alley nest top the fuel oil tanks.

There was also a freestanding gas heater in the bathroom.  When I was two I was baddy burned because I fell against it when my sister was giving me a bath.  A similar thing happened to my brother, Joel, when he was two in a different house but only his hand was burnt.

The back bedroom was for the kids. Patty and Joel had bunkbeds and I slept in a crib much longer than was needed. When Doug was born he slept my parents bedroom. At first he was in a bassinet and then the bought a second crib.