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According to Gloria Hawkins Green in a 2017 interview, she was a frequent visitor to the Mossoni House from the 1920s on, as Marie Zarini Mossoni was her aunt. She stated that the back porch entered into an area with a kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom. (The house had an indoor bathroom well before Louisville's sewage system was installed in the 1950s.) The door at the front went into a glassed -in front porch, then into the area at the front of the house with a dining room, Norman's room, Gina's room, and a living room. An open basement under the house was accessed from outside at the back of the house. It held a laundry area, storage area, coal room believed to have been accessed from a coal chute on the south side of the house, and a bed for relatives or guests. The closed -in and windowed front porch was an important part of the life of the Mossoni house. Marie Mossoni, along with her friends, Mrs. Guenzi and Mrs. Largo, would meet in the sitting area of the porch and are remembered as crocheting and speaking Italian. Marie Mossoni raised canaries there. The family enjoyed decorating the front porch for the Christmas holiday. The family Christmas tree was put up in the front porch so that it could be seen from passersby on Main Street. Marie Mossoni would also put the pieces of a large nativity scene up on a table in the windowed front porch so that it could be seen from the street. Marie Mossoni is also remembered as having many interactions with the Pellillo family who lived to the south. The Pellillo house can still be seen as part of the Marketplace Building at 820 Main. The following photos show 836 Main in 2007: The four decorative rock piles with chains that serve as a border in front of 836 Main and 844 Main are visible in historic photos going back to the late 1930s/early 1940s and in the World 8