This home is one of the most beautiful and well preserved in Nauvoo. It was lived in continuously and was well maintained over the years. When the Church bought the house, the Taylor family paid for the restoration and returned some of the original possessions that the family took with them to Utah to the home here in Nauvoo. This is my favorite of all the homes we toured. It is beautifully done.
Parlor of the home
Music room
Kitchen and dining area
The ever present spinning wheel
Parent’s bedroom
The open closet in the corner was only about 8 inches deep. The reason is that the law stated that if any room in the house was large enough for a grown man to step into and close the door it was considered a room and, therefore, was taxed as such so they made their closets shallow.
This is the children’s room. That little horse in the foreground was one of my favorite things. It belonged to John Taylor’s young son and when they were forced from their home with almost no time to prepare, they had to hastily decide what to take and then get all their possessions loaded into a wagon. There was no room to take this little horse that meant so much to the boy. After they crossed the Mississippi to spend the first night in Montrose, the boy went to bed and was crying for his horse before falling asleep. John Taylor then rowed a boat back across the river after dark and snuck back into Nauvoo, fearing that the roaming mob would find him. He snuck back into the home and retrieved the little horse and took it back to his son.
Childs tea set
I got a kick out of this child’s potty chair
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