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
SOUTH FOYER
Architectural Materials, Features, and Finishes
Terrazzo Floor X X X X
Painted plaster walls X X X X
Circulation and Spatial Arrangements
South Foyer connects the Elliptical Hall X X X X
and the Living Room
Pocket doors leading to Living Room X X X X
can be open or closed
Furnishing and Interior Design Elements
Oriental rug X X L L
Pair of canons X X X X
Model of the yacht Warrior X M In Pavilion exhibition
Cassone X X X X
Pair of painted and gilded torcheres X X X X
Two hanging tapestries X X X R Part of a series of four, the other
two are in the Living Room
Venetian hanging lantern X X X X
Mechanical Systems
Decorative grates/registers X X X X
LIVING ROOM
Architectural Materials, Features, and Finishes
Herringbone pattern wood floor X X X X
Paneling of carved Circassian walnut X X,M X,M X,M Some carving added over
windows by Whitney Warren in
1906
Pair of gray marble mantels X X X X
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