Here is a list of people who repair early sets, on the Early Television Foundation website:
http://www.earlytelevision.org/classifieds_repair.html
Some of them are members on here. It is tempting to take this project on myself but I would rather see you go with someone a little more "expert", and I am really on the fringes of your travel radius. I would really like to see you get this property restored; having a new set inside just isn't the same.