Make: Glenwood
Model: Heater Model A36 6161
Approximate Age: 1961-2
Made in: Taunton, Massachusetts
Width: 36″
Depth: 26″
Maximum Height: 45.5″
Cooktop Height: 36″
This early 1960s Glenwood was designed to not only heat your meals, but your home, too! You typically see these on the West Coast or in cabins – places where an old wood stove was used to heat the house. When people switched over to gas and propane, they still wanted a warm house, so these heater models were developed. It’s unusual to see one made after the 50s (and even in the 50s they were being made less and less). This Glenwood has a nice little bit of mod flair to go along with its practical use.
Note that the heater should be connected to a flue, as per the manufacturer’s instructions.
he same look and feel.
With an original price tag of $118 (about $2100 if you were to buy it today), this was the “budget model”, as you can see from the description from the original catalog page pictured here. They called it a “high class apartment model”.
Sadly, the stove lost its thermodome long before the stove was pulled out of a barn in Missouri to be rescued. But it is otherwise complete and can be made ready to cook for you with the incomparable performance of the Chambers oven – which hardly changed over the decades.
The body was originally completely black paint with nickel trim on the manifold and door. – and it can be again, if you have the vision for this in your home.
