Somehow I never envisioned she lived in something quite that big when she was little.
Oh, this was long after the time of the stories. Here daughter when grown and accomplished built this for her and it is here, about three miles from the Missouri farm, that she moved after age 60 and started writing the first books.
So this is fifty years after the time she writes about and long distance in time and space from the early years of the various farms and homesteads of her youth.