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The Kitchen and Butler's Pantry at Elm Court

The butler�s pantry of Elm Court mansion has a larger footprint than some US homes. At times up to 38 footmen would whisk in and out of the dining room to the pantry to stage grand dinners. The kitchen picks up on wood, stone, and metal motifs from the rest of the house. The amazing resiliency and strength of Terazzo flooring was shown as it was still in good shape after the vandals destroyed the kitchen.

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The Kitchen and Butler's Pantry at Elm Court

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" So this is it a -- a butler's pantry right yes it is indeed this was the preparation and I. Launching area into the formal dining room for all of me wonderful meals."

" So if you were saying a minute ago that you had a table that sat 38 and 38 footman would be wandering through here. Try to --"

" Yes they would they would they would have two areas of flow I think -- utilize to go into the dining room mountain. Try to make it does not smooth sailing as possible and it's also the area that we use for when we cater events toward being weddings and special dinners what condition was it --"

" When we arrived it was that very large I think is the best word -- whole. Right here on the went through the basement. It was a great deal of structural work we jacked up the old refrigerator. Which you can see here this is the old icebox it is. But this was such a big heavy item that the vandals couldn't -- taken aback when he did take a hardware. We can now we can find some."

" And then this is the actual working area of the kitchen yes it -- and the kitchen here well with the condition it was."

" And terrible condition everything had been again it is very nice how you've kind of made it. It kind of matches the front hall and the paneling that you see throughout the house -- the idea was to utilize motifs from the rest of the house side into the kitchen so it would appear -- a -- at a critical and here what condition was this and I can imagine the vandalism in a kitchen like this it was extreme there really wasn't an appliance there was feet of debris on the floor as well as soap suds and but the floor which looks to be -- has to be -- all right."

" It is original floor in -- we luckily discovered it -- one day with some water from a water bottle that was accidentally spilled."

" Before there was electricity in the house than we thought we had a concrete bed of of the floor and it yeah it was a Scot -- this coming kind of base and across the city. Until the water and then of course -- squirting water all over the floor trying to. -- cover you and you realize this belongs red red spots it's -- what you've done."

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