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I really fell in love with this place as soon as I stepped in here, he said.
Now, he s the owner of the 142-year-old business.
The interior of the two-story wooden-frame building at 119 S. Walnut St. looks like a time capsule or a museum, not a workplace. It s heated with wood-burning and gas stoves; the knob-and-tube wiring was installed in 1912. Graffiti on one wall is dated 1909. Many of the tools used to make the copper kettles look as though they ve been there forever though some have only been there since the 1930s, purchased when the Star Kettle Company in Canton went out of business. Even an anvil is worn from constant use.
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