Characteristics
The building represents a dwelling of a small peasant farming on one hectare meadows and temporary fi elds. The family had to live by day labour for wages and benefi ts in kind. In summer, they left for harvest and beet cultivation, while in winter they worked in the forest.
The house is situated at the outskirts of the Vyškovec cadastral area, on a slope of the Grůň hill. The local lands were not settled and they served as meadows and pastures for the farmers from Starý Hrozenkov. No. 58 as being built between the years 1881 and 1885. The first documented owner was Ondřej Šprtel who sold the house to Jan and Anna Chovanec in1889. Vavřín Hodulík and his wife Kateřina, daughter of Anna Holásková, were its last occupiers. After the death of Vavřín Hodulík (1963), the house remained unoccupied, it was acquired by the Institute of Folk Art and transported to the Open-Air Museum in Strážnice.
The house has two rooms – a habitable room (izba) and a hall (pitvor) which housed the livestock, among others.
