This brick house with the gingerbread style roof and beautiful stained glass windows was constructed in downtown Plymouth in 1875. It was built for Henry William Baker who was the president of the Plymouth Iron Windmill Company. With windmill sales struggling the company decided to giveaway an air rifle with the purchase of every windmill. The air rifles were more popular than the and the company became the Daisy Manufacturing Company producing BB guns in Plymouth until 1956 when new owners moved the company to Arkansas. It was the Daisy Red Ryder BB gun that Ralphie in the movie A Christmas Story asked Santa for Christmas to which he got the response “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid”
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