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Middle Bedroom |
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The room called the middle bedroom was host to many visitors during the life of Winsor Castle. Even before the fort was completed, the rooms were used by the Winsor family. During the fort construction, the Winsors lived in the east cabin. As soon as the three upper rooms of the southeast building were completed, the family moved into what would become the cheese room. The stairs, catwalk, |
and veranda were yet to be constructed, so Mrs. Winsor ordered a hole cut into the floor of the middle bedroom and a ladder installed so that the three upper rooms could be accessed. The trap door itself has since been covered over, but you can still see the mounting brackets for the ladder in the ceiling of the cheese room. |
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the middle bedroom and the northeast bedroom on this floor were probably
at one time or another the rooms of hired girls. They would come to
Pipe Spring to work off their debts to the Church for having paid their
passage from Europe to America, or from the east coast to Utah. |
Winsor Castle has several examples of this precursor of today's "hide-a-bed."
During the day, this piece of furniture masqueraded as a couch. But
at night, it could be slid apart on a system of slats, and became a
large double bed. |
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