This house is named after its owners the Dufords, who occupied it from 1825 when it was built until 1977 when it was moved from its location on St. Joseph Boulevard near Place D’Orleans to the Cumberland Museum. Can you believe that this house was once home to a family with two parents, a grandmother and fourteen children?   There was no electricity, they used an outhouse in the back, had to pump their water to the kitchen and they had to cook on a woodstove. This stove kept them warm in the winter but would have made them swelter in the summer (of course, there was no air conditioning in 1825).

The house was one and a half stories tall. It was designed this way to reduce taxes as housing taxes were higher for two storey buildings. So now that you have some background information on the Duford house, Let's take a look inside. The Duford house contains a dining room, living room, kitchen, parent's bedroom and children's bedroom, as well as a shed out back. Just like today, families in the 1930s had duties, take a look. Think you could survive during the depression?