National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior

Character-Defining Features of Individual Rooms
1899-1906 1906 1940 Current
Vanderbilt Renovation - Inventory Conditions
Comments
First 1938
Period
SUB-BASEMENT: BOILER ROOM
Architectural Materials, Features, and Finishes
Masonry walls, cement floors, exposed X X X X
pipes, ducts
Circulation and Spatial Arrangements
Access to mechanical equipment
X X X X
Stairway from hall, access to subbasement
Furnishings and Design Elements
Sink; electric light fixtures X X X X
Mechanical Systems
Boilers (2) X X M X Boilers replaced circa 1943
Oil burning
Hot water boiler X X X M? Boiler replaced 19??
Sink X X X X
Electrical panel X Year? Modification?
COAL ROOMS
Coal chutes, rooms to receive and store X X X X
coal
BASEMENT: HALL
Architectural Materials, Features, and Finishes
Painted, plastered walls with varnished X X X X
baseboard, chair rail, picture rail
Four square, structural columns in the X X X M Some trim removed from
ellipse
columns at unknown date
Hardwood floor X X X M NPS red carpet added to north
end of hall
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