Farmer, from your post, I gather that your house is a single story. Is that correct? If you inspect the inside of the chimney, you will likely find that it is not lined with the square liners. In the time since 1922, it may well have been capped, and since the products they used that long ago were not enough to deal with the heat even then, it would be my recommendation to simply use a double walled insulated chimney available at Lowes or Tractor Supply for between $100 - $200. The kit comes with the attaching materials, hardware and roof cone and cap, and sometimes they come with the insulated, but now a days they usually don't. You will need to also get the insulated double walled chimney, if they don't as well as the 6" stove pipe. Volelzang makes the cast iron belly stoves that run from $200 - $350, as well as the Frontiersmen. The Frontiersmen is a semi seal firebox and comes with a blower that preforms both as a draft blower and a warm air circulating fan. I heated my 1400sqft home with one until it was stolen while I was stationed elsewhere with the Coast Guard. I tell my wife that I want to think that someone wanted to stay warm, but, I realize that it was most likely sold for scrap to fund a meth habit. It sells for about $350. I think Northern Hardware sells them for $400. You need to check the local code Nazis, er I meant building code to see what is allowed. Usually if it is either EPA exempt or EPA approved the city will not object, unless you have a mobile home. You need to look up you current NFTP regulations to ensure that if your insurance ever finds out about it that they don't cancal, but if you have a fireplace, you likely have a masonary surface, and at most you would need to lay some backer board and paving bricks in whatever pattern you like, which is what I did. I also had to do it again now that we are installing a bigger one. If you use the less expensive model, the cast iron belly stove, it will not likely meet code, and more importantly, your insurance company will cease coverage. Even if everything you do is to perfect code, some insurance companies won't cover wood stoves. Sometimes I want to grab insurance people by their heads and ask them if they even know the flash point of wood. It is about the safest heating there is when you consider how explosive LP and Propane are, but I have had to change insurance companies. It isn't as expensive as I may have made it sound. I put the Frontiersmen in for about $700 including the stove, chimney kit, double insulated chimney pipes, stove pipes and mortar and backer board. I already had enough bricks. I spent about $800 including the bricks that the meth head broke up while I was gone, the stove (a Whistler), and stove pipes. It all depends on what you must hire out.