First Floor -- Continued
These are our interior front doors
Click the photo to see what the fraternity did to them.
We have two sets of front doors. The interior doors were gone, replaced by a hollow core door. The windowed sidepiece we found in the basement. It has a bullet hole in the glass. The oak paneling had been painted blue by the fratenity. It was the first thing we stripped.
tile in the foyer
Click the photo to see the living room
fireplace as the fraternity had it
Dining room looking to the front of the house.
Click the photo to see a before photo.
The servants' hall, adjacent to the dining room. Servants were supposed to be all but invisible in the Victorian era, relegated to hallways, sculleries, pantries, and kitchens. That's why you find so many doors in Victorian houses -- the "betters" were always shut away from having to view the servants.
We have servants' call bells throughout the house, though they no longer work.
Below, you see the servants' annunciator or register, the little call box that would show the servants which room to answer. This one is a vintage replacement. Our annunciator would have been a little larger. We installed it in our kitchen.
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