716 Fenimore was built in 1931. There was no central air or heat.
You could sleep underneath an individual, window unit turned on high, in the summer time.
There were parquet floors which befriended neither heat nor cold. There was no walking around in bare feet. Everything was robes and blankets; coziness was first.
Bedsheets were so cold in winter, they felt wet. This was not an original idea. It came from Akron, Ohio.
The same, Midlothian dinner table with the removable center piece served as witness to the kitchen and firescape. One season, the less fortunate family next door could see you take a meal, with their pillows and blankets suspended from metal stairways trying to get relief from summer heat. Or a gray mouse scampering from the kitchen would catch a glimpse of you doing homework as its hindlegs disappeared around the corner into the dining room.