we found this wonderful, absolutely pristine enamel porcelain panel that was originally to the sink. had not been -- visible in decades. and this is the original kitchen sink. with the huge soap stone basin that is all original. just one huge block of soapstone. the original working kitchen was eliminated in 1980. because it had been update sed many times, a modern elevator was put into this space that originally had the kichten eki it. it was a small room. much like a galley kitchen, 12 burner hotel stove and couple small pantries. so that space was eliminated. but -- it always made me laugh that there are actually three sets of doors from the kitchen into the house. and there were two reasons for that. the most obvious is that -- they did not want heat from the kitchen to -- to go into the -- more formal rooms of the house. but also cooking smells. victorians were absolutely obsessed with allowing, with not al allowing cooking smells to eminate into the room. and the pabst's daughter, built a home in germany, we had a letter to the architect, to build a large chimney to vent the co

revealing itself and we started scraping away and we found this wonderful, absolutely pristine enamelled porcelain panel that was original to the sink and had not been visible in decades. and this is the original kitchen sink with this huge soap stone basin that's all original. it's just one huge block of soap stone. the original working kitchen was eliminated in 1980 because it had been updated so many times and a modern elevator was put into this space that originally had the kitchen in it. it was actually a very small room. it was much like a galley kitchen that had a 12 burner hotel stove and a couple of small pantries. and so that space was eliminated. but it always made me laugh that there were three sets of doors from the kitchen into the house. and there were two reasons for that. the most obvious is that they did not want heat from the kitchen to go into the more formal rooms of the house. but also cooking smells. the victorians were obsessed with allowing -- with not allowing cooking smells to emanate into the room. and the pabst daughter who had built a large house in germany we have her lett