T.C. Van Eaton Home 1971
T.C. Van Eaton home 1971 (front)
These press photos of the old T.C. Van Eaton home were taken in 1971. The small article says at the time it was being considered as a family and regional museum. It also mentions the town hall was new then too.
“The Van Eatons built a “mansion,” a sturdy square structure on a knoll above town, in the late 1890s. It was pretty fancy going for those roughhewn pioneer days. Another Van Eaton son, John, is having it restored, not a monumental task considering the sturdiness of its construction. He plans to make it into a family and regional museum.
Rear of T.C. VanEaton Home 1971
As a museum it will be a welcome adjunct to the new Town Hall, which in the manner of such facilities these days is becoming as much a community center as the site of city offices, the jail, the fire house and such.”
If you like the pictures, the original press photo are available on ebay.
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[…] T.C. Van Eaton wasted no time setting up a post office in Eatonville. The first post office opened July 25, 1890, and “Van Eaton’s first commission as Postmaster bore the signature of Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States.” […]