On March 9 and 10, 1974 open house was held and well over 500 were shown through what was once the stopping off place for canal boat workers - since the canal ran through the village - and also travelers and salespeople. The original banquet table holds a revered spot in the basement tavern room, where guests once warmed themselves at the fireplace before partaking of food or drinks.

Many items have been loaned or donated to make this part of the home the envy of many antique collectors.

When one enters the foyer and signs the register, they are shown what was once the formal parlor. Here mannequins are dressed as the women would have been in earlier days. An old organ and stool, a priceless marble-topped table centered by a lovely hand painted oil lamp, grace the room along with other tables and lams. Here too, is a smaller fireplace of inlaid red marble.

For most women, a visit to the Community Room, to the right of foyer, is a joy to behold. Rare items of glassware on display include Mrs. Max Julien's collection of Cambridge glass, a rare collection of pink cranberry glass provided by Mrs. Forest Edwards of West Lafayette, priceless glassware on loan from someone preferring to remain anonymous. The room is available to club meetings and according to Mrs. Alfred Marshall, president of the Newcomerstown Historical Society, will accommodate at least 36.

In a rear room downstairs, called the Canal Room, is an original wooden bilge pump which was once used to pump water from the canal boats, Mrs. Marshall explained. Still in good working order, it was donated by the W. M. Brode Construction Company. Many items used in the "olden days" will be found here.

On the second floor one enters the Famous Sons Room where among other items owned by baseball's great Cy Young, is his old brown hat, which to the end he would politely remove when he would shake the hand of a woman. Here too are mementos of Newcomerstown's own Woody Hayes, Ohio State University's great football coach; Henry C. Wolfe, lecturer and author; Norman Bel Geddes, stage setting designer; Paul Brunn, owner and editor of the Miami newspaper who once had a sydicated column, "Brunn Over Miami;" Shannon Rodgers, a noted New York City clothing designer; and Anita Loos, famous author whose father came from "Whiskey Springs," just out of Newcomerstown.

The Study Room contains bookcases donated by Mrs. Charles Leiser in memory of her father, Judge Kuhns. Here too is a typewriter which was one of the first, magazines, etc. Mrs. Leiser's husband is memorialized by a room named for him and furnished with items they brought home from many foreign countries.