"Sunday Morning"

"Sunday Morning"

HISTORY OF “SUNDAY MORNING”

Centered in “Sunday Morning” is the Noah Lehman House built in 1875 and was located on Lehman Road in Canal Winchester Ohio.  Noah was a Civil War veteran and his time in the south is shown in the house he built for his family.

The Lehman’s were of the Mennonite faith and Noah built the house to accommodate church meetings.   The house has two front doors.  The women and young children entered through the right door the men and boys entered through the left door.  This room was extra nice, using   special graceful moldings on the doors and windows and was called the sitting room.  It leads to both the large country kitchen and the dining room to the right.  The stairs are unusual in that they have steps and doors on two sides leading from the sitting room and kitchen, but for a purpose when the meetings were in progress, the speaker could stand on the landing and be heard in all three rooms.  To the west of the house are two large boulders that were used as mounting stones.  The people came in wagons and brought their benches both for riding in the wagon and seating during the meeting.  The benches were used there and later used on Stemen and Diley Roads.  As recently as 1980, they were used at the Bremen Church.  These people were a kneeling, praying people and the benches showed the elbow wear marks.

The basement is under the main house with a four foot crawl space under the kitchen.  Mr. Lehman owned a tile kiln and made use of the bricks.  The basement and foundation are three row brick.  The outside basement doors lead to the produce building where the family sold meat, milk products, and vegetables in season.  It was a one and one half story two room building with a large fireplace used for curing meat and produce.  Some of the strings still hang from the rafters.  Unfortunately, it was almost totally wrecked by the same tornadoes that destroyed the big barn.

The south and west porches are from another house that was moved from Busey Road to Canal Winchester sometime in the early 1900’s.  All around the house is what seems a narrow brick walk but is in fact, a catch basin for rain water.

Other buildings in the painting:  The red barn is located on Long Road in Pickerington, Ohio; the Church and Mail Pouch barn is located in Rio Grande Ohio; and the cows were located in Lithopolis, Ohio.

Original watercolor painting is available. "Sunday Morning" is a limited edition, signed and numbered reproduction, also  note cards are available.