revealing itself, and we started scraping away, and we found this wonderful, absolutely pristine enameled porcelain panel that was original to the sink and had not been visible in decades. this is the original kitchen sink with this huge soapstone basin that's all original. it's just one huge block of soapstone. the original working kitchen was eliminated in 1980 because it had been updated so many times, and so 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 i've -- 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 go into the more formal rooms of the house, but also cooking smells. the victorians were absolutely obsessed with not allowing cooking smells to emanate into the room, and the pabst daughter, who had built a large house in germany, we hav