"On the 3rd of April, 1845, Enos Candee came into possession of the property by deed from Bernard and Nancy Humphrey of Derby. It was during the life of Enos Candee that the old place was one of the famous homes of Oxford.
    "Mr. Candee was a farmer of large and generous style, and the place still shows signs of the arrangements made by him for the carrying on of the manifold operations of a large farm. Mr. Candee removed the original east chimney, which then stood as the west chimney now stands. He rebuilt it at the end of the house, making the basement wall the back of it. He built a smoke house in the attic, connected with the chimney, and in this cured the meats necessary for the winter use of his large family."
    In the high basement he finished off a large kitchen, with milk room opening out of it. In this kitchen is a yawning fireplace, with the old crane still in place, from which the pots were suspended in cooking. At the right he built a fire-brick oven suited to the quantity and quality of baking requirements. On the left a great iron pot was set in the masonry to cook feed for the pigs, and probably, to boil the old-time soap. A door opens through the basement wall, making it easy to pass out the steaming food for the hungry pigs.
    "The parlors were arranged by him in their present charming style, and were the scene of many festivities, which doubtless led up to the weddings which afterward took place when his many daughters forsook the old roof-tree..."
    "Mr. David Candee, his only surviving son, has told me many pleasant details of the homelife of this large family: of the Thanksgiving feasts, when all gathered again around the home hearthstone; of the use of the house as a "Sabba-Day House," when the cold and weary people came after meetings to thaw out, and eat their luncheon and exchange the news...."
    "The great lilac bush at the north of the house was set out by Mr. David Candee and his sisters, they having brought the root from Quaker Farms...."