"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.