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This cast-iron wood stove kept a 19th-century room warm. Its embossed designs, especially the rows of pointed arches on its sides, were meant to evoke medieval architecture.

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Full-size lamp stoves were considerably cheaper than cast-iron wood stoves and gas ranges. Ivanhoe stoves were made by the Perfection Stove Co., founded in Cleveland in 1888 by Frank Drury.

By the mid-1700s, cast-iron heating stoves were introduced. Many were "five plate" stoves made of five iron plates assembled as an open box.

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Other styles of stoves were made, many with elaborate designs cast in the iron plates. Stove improvements could be patented after 1793, and new designs after 1842.