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There used to be a built-in archway between the living room and the dining room. Dick DelPizzo recalls that his father removed it in the late 1940s or early 1950s. Carmen Scarpella put in the distinctive kitchen nook and table. Joe Ross, put in the kitchen cabinets with the glass windows. The family's washing machine was kept in the back bedroom. Once a week, Rose DelPizzo rolled the heavy machine into the kitchen to do laundry. The family recently donated this Maytag washing machine, which appears to be from 1926, to the Louisville Historical Museum. The bathroom was likely added in the early 1950s when Louisville voters approved a bond issue to pay for a town sewage system. Cellar: The mostly dirt cellar includes an open area and two small rooms that are along the south side of the house. The one further back from the front of the house was for coal. Coal would be delivered through the opening where there is now a window. Joseph DelPizzo made wine in the cellar using a wooden wine press. The following photo from the small room at the front of the house shows wine barrels that until recently were still located there. (Italian families in Louisville and Frederick would partner to place one large order of grapes from California each year, with each family ordering their preferred variety or varieties of grapes. It was not unusual for one family to make 200 gallons of wine each year for its own use.) The above photo also shows wire hooks that Joseph DelPizzo used for hanging prosciutto that he made. (Prosciutto is made from fresh hams that are heavily salted for a long period, then hung for at least a period of months.) In the upper left of the photo, one can see brown paper on a horizontal wire where he would hang homemade sausages. 6