Why the Padgett Chair Kept Turning Up at Burned Buildings
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Why the Padgett Chair Kept Turning Up at Burned Buildings
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Cold and unexplained: an oak armchair was found upright on ice with no footprints at 9°F, and the same chair turned up after at least three different fires - sometimes a quarter mile away, sometimes in a churchyard - with officials noting it was “deliberately removed prior to ignition.” Who moved it, and why did it repeatedly escape flames that consumed the hall it belonged to?
In this episode, we lay out the documented trail of the Padgett Chair from newspaper mentions to conservator reports and official fire records, following dates, distances, and the sparse notes left by investigators to ask whether the chair’s survival was human, accidental, or something else entirely.
Person: Leon Padgett
Date: February 9, 2011
Location: Millhaven Road four-mile marker
Event: Crestwick Town Hall fires (notably January 17, 2011; February 6, 1934; partial fire in 1893)
Author: Crestwick Courier (August 3, 1893 report)
- On February 9, 2011, road-grader operator Roy Donnelly found the oak armchair upright at the four-mile marker with ice unbroken around all four legs at 9°F.
- Crestwick Town Hall burned to its foundation on January 17, 2011; fire marshal Ed Kurtz classified the cause as electrical.
- A conservator, Anne Beckett, dated the chair’s manufacture to western Pennsylvania between 1910 and 1920 and noted the upholstery was likely replaced in the 1950s.
- The earliest documented record of the chair at the hall is a Crestwick Courier mention on August 3, 1893, after a fire that year when the chair was found in a yard behind the grain cooperative.
- On February 7, 1934, after the February 6 fire that destroyed roughly 40% of the hall’s interior, insurance assessor Harold Steck recorded the chair had been “deliberately removed prior to ignition” and found it in Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Churchyard about a quarter mile from the hall.
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