This house is the oldest on the site. It was built in 1820 and believe it or not was actually lived in until 1983. An older woman named Eva Dupuis lived in the house by herself on St. Joseph Boulevard in Cumberland until she died. The house was then transported to the museum. She managed to live in this old house without any modern conveniences. The house was heated with coal and wood, her only washroom was an outhouse and she used a well in the backyard for her water. She did not even have a fridge, she simply kept her food in an icebox. She changed the house so little that it is almost exactly how it would have been when the first occupants lived there. The house now sits at the museum, housing the seamstress exhibit. Lets take a look inside.