Kitchen building at Thomas Hickman House

October 16, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CDT

The Thomas Hickman House includes a separate building that served as the summer kitchen, pictured here on Thursday. The family's servants in the 19th century would have prepared meals, sewed and done laundry in this one-room building, which features a functional hearth.

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