Pat, we had something like that in our basement when I was a kid. It was a little pot belly stove with water pipes going into it, and a galvanized water tank next to it. Every morning my Dad would have to go down, open the little door on the front, and add coal so we would have hot water to bath with. It was about 3 feet high, as I recall, and pot bellly shaped. I had forgotten all about that one. :)
Don

