Below: This little hip-roofed structure measures about 16'x20'. The arrangement of windows on the front is unusual as the inside space is widen open - the little short window in the middle front was located above a phone booth and makes perfect sense once you see an old photo with the booth in place - see below.
Following it's use as a telephone office it was used as a residence.
Below: note the back door which was a back entrance leading to the basement and the back of the telephone office.
Below: Museum display.
Below: my mother, Verna (McDowell) Jeffery leans against the counter in the telephone office remembering her days a young girl at the same counter - she spent alot of time here with her friend who's grandmother, Ruth Silliker, was an operator here. Ruth would always work the night shift spending the night there - Mom wondered where Ruth would have slept as the telephone office was just one room - there's a back door (likely quick way out to outhouse) and a stairs to the basement.
Below: view of the historic buildings behind the PEI Potato Museum, from left to right: Telephone Office, Heritage Chapel, log barn, and Alaska Schoolhouse.
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