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Resource History and Description of Existing Conditions MM & W Floor Plan 863 Housekeeper's Key Closet Theresa Farley (1896) Room Name / Key Number 864 (1920-1938) Kitchen Kitchen / 27 Kitchen Scullery Kitchen Scullery / 24 (unnamed) Hall to Dumbwaiter / 23 Housekeeper's Room Housekeeper's Office / 21 Housekeeper's Dining Room 865 Lavatory Lavatory / 19 Wines Wine Cellar / 18 Hall Box Closet (outside?) / .02 Housekeeper's Store Closet /.05 Bicycle Room / .06 Trunk Room (partitioned) Pressing Room (partitioned) Men's Bath Men's Bath / 17 No. 1 Boots / 16 Third Man's Room Servants' Laundry Service Laundry / 15 Helps' Laundry Laundry Main Laundry / 14 Servants' Store Room Service Trunk Room / 13 No. 5 Butler's Room / 12 Butler's Room No. 4 Second Man's Room / 11 Second Man's Room Day and Night Men's Room No. 3 Third Man's Room / 10 (partitioned) Store Room (north partition) Boots & Lamps Cook's Room / 8 Visiting Valet's Room (not on plan) V's Trunk and Store Room / 7 Soap Closet Pantry Pantry Service Dining Room / 4 Helps' Pantry Closet Closet Service Dining Room / 3 Helps' Cloak Room Servants' Hall Service Dining Room / 2 Helps' Dining Room Closet Kitchen Store Closet / 5 Refrigerator (no key) Refrigerator Kitchen Diagram 4: A Comparison of Changes in Basement Room Names over Time The Kitchen at Hyde Park is surprisingly small in comparison with the grand kitchen offices at The Breakers in Newport and it lacks the specialized food storage spaces which still survive in the Ogden Mills house, yet it is neatly arranged and was fitted with the modern equipment customary to a country place. McKim's plan indicated the placement of the range and sink on the north and east exterior walls, respectively; a built-in china dresser on the west, two storage closets and a door to the adjoining Scullery to the south. One small modification was made during construction. The scullery door was changed from a swinging door to a door opening into the Kitchen. A swinging door would have interfered with the Scullery's other door. The Kitchen receives excellent natural light from two large windows on the eastern elevation, and a smaller north window offers a view to the delivery entrance. 863 McKim, Mead & White, Drawing # 11. 864 Farley; Snell, "Master Plan Development Outline," 26-33. Snell cites an additional unrecorded interview with Farley on February 15, 1957. Snell's room numbers are taken from the Curry Inventory of 1938, 91-96. Farley was hired in as a maid from 1920 to 1927 when she joined the staff as third chamber maid. 865 Curry Inventory, 95. Both the Curry Inventory and Snell refer to this as a dining room. Farley is not on record discussing the room. 156
Resource History and Description of Existing Conditions Alfred Martin, third man, noted that, "The kitchen was a very cold room in appearance." 866 The Kitchen walls are tiled with white, 8 ¾" x 2 ¾" tiles laid in garden bond with no trim at the floor and ceiling. The door lintels are white marble. At the jambs, the tiles are quarter-round. The ceiling currently is painted a high-gloss cream; however, the original ceiling paint may survive in the two closets which have dark mustard ceilings. The floor is a single pour of terrazzo with white marble chips in gray mortar. A 6 ½" tile border of ¾" squares set in yellow, white, and black stripes lines the room. The border runs along the footprint of the range, but disappears under the built-in china dresser, which was on McKim's plan, and a small cupboard under the north window. The French firm of DuParquet, Huot, and Moneuse Company, with offices in New York, Boston, and Chicago, equipped the Kitchen. 867 The range is marked with the company name, a patent date of June 1, 1880, and "No. 3." It was ordered by McKim, Mead & White in December 1898 at a cost of $400. 868 Its cook surface measures 9' x 3'4". The range area includes a 12' x 4'6" iron hood, air vent, pot rack discussed below, and shelf above the cook surface. The small oven displayed to the right of the range was salvaged by park staff from a trash pit and restored. It is believed to have been in the Pavilion kitchen. There is no period lighting above the range, but a capped pipe may indicate a former fixture. The sink is a "Monel" sink which replaced an earlier heavy white porcelain sink. 869 Wooden nailers under the sink indicate the location of the earlier model. A call bell is installed south of the hall door. Its mechanicals have been removed. A speaking tube is located on the pier between the closets. The original pot rack was likely removed during the scrap metal drives of World War II. 870 The current rack was supplied by H. Friedman & Sons and installed in 1971. The original anchors for the rack remained at the ceiling and were used as a guide for the size of the new rack. 871 Tom Morgan, a Vanderbilt houseman, noted, "copper pots and pans hanging from a rack in the ceiling." 872 A wall shelf was installed on the west wall between the door and the range. Molly bolts and discoloration in the tile indicate that the shelf was mounted on brackets 4'10" from the floor and was approximately 7' long. Discoloration in the tile below the shelf at the exact height of the mortar in the room, indicate that the mortar was situated below the shelf. Two hooks with pokers are still mounted to the right of the mortar location near the range. A similar shelf survives on the east wall north of the sink. It is mounted 5'7 ¼" above the floor and measures 6' x 6 ½". Its underside has holes for ten small hooks at approximately 7" intervals. Divets in the wood indicate heavy use of the hooks. Behind this row of holes is another row of seven holes with lighter evidence of use. The wall above the shelf has six additional molly bolt holes, and below the shelf three "L" hooks and two holes indicate more hanging storage. Shelves are also mounted at the same height over the sink drain-boards. These measure 2'6" x 13 ¼". The left 866 Martin, Letter, October 1, 1970. 867 Snell, "Master Plan Development Outline," 33. Snell cites an interview with J. B. Clermont, October 14, 1954. 868 McKim, Mead & White Billbook #6, 437. 869 Tom Morgan. 870 2,800 lbs. of copper and 50,215 lbs. of steel were donated by Superintendent Cooper to the American Red Cross in 1942. See "World War II Use of Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site," VAMA General File, "VAMA Operations," ROVA Curatorial Division. 871 Todd Koenig, Letter, April 9, 1971, VAMA General File, "VAMA Kitchen," ROVA Curatorial Division. 872 Tom Morgan. 157
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Vanderbilt Mansion, 1898. Wurts Bro
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