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
BLUE BEDROOM
Architectural Materials, Features, and Finishes
Blue embossed wallpaper X M X X Wallpaper replaced in 1932 with
the same paper
Gray-veined marble mantel with
X X X X
columns and a swag in the middle
Circulation and Spatial
Arrangements
This bedroom has its own bathroom X X X X
accessible only through the bedroom
Wall-to-wall carpet and area rugs X X X? X?
Coordinating draperies, upholstery, and X X X,M X,M Reproduction textiles and
bed coverings
upholstery
Suite of painted French 19 th century X X X X Made and labeled by Poirer et
Furniture
Remon for Georges Glaenzer
Arrangements of seating furniture X X X,L X,L Mrs. Van Alen switched the two
blue silk upholstered dressing
table chairs, two upholstered
armchairs missing after 1940 as
well as a tufted chaise longue
that matched the caned one still
in the room
Seasonal arrangements of flowers and X X L L Dynamic effect lost with
vases
removal of flowers
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