This Was the Cigar Room — and the Reason Why Is the Best Story in the House

In 1936, a nineteen-year-old named Isabella Winton opened a steakhouse in this house — and turned this very room into a men-only cigar lounge for one gloriously practical reason: the card ladies tipped a quarter, and the bowlers tipped five dollars. This is the story of that room, and the 20 old-house finds that gave it a second life. Nothing disposable. Nothing for the sake of it.