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Kitchen Stove- During a weekend house party, Staatsburgh would have functioned much like a fine hotel. The Millses employed three French chefs to create extravagant menus for their guests. The coal stove and the coal furnaces would have been fired up by the night watchman before he went off duty in the early morning, and used throughout the day under the watchful eye of the head chef. The chef supervising the under chefs, kitchen maids, and scullery maids would have juggled the preparation of breakfast, lunch, and dinner in order to perfectly time presentation to the family and guests. One of the under chefs, assisted by the kitchen maids, probably made the meals for the servants. The stove is a French range made by Duparquet, Hout & Moneuse Co., a premier supplier of commercial stoves in the mid-to late 19th and early 20th centuries. This stove was patented on November 19, 1907.