04/11/2026
We've been working on the butler's pantry lately. The trim has all been stripped of its paint. This doorway went to a 1/2 bath when we bought the house. We decided to make it into a pantry closet. It is still empty inside, but we'll be installing antique reclaimed cabinets & shelving soon.
According to the plans for this house, this would have been an open hallway to the downstairs bedroom on Hood St. It was converted to a walk in closet off the bedroom & a half bathroom off the butler's pantry sometime before we bought the house. The doorway that was placed on this hallway conversion was the original exterior door for the living room that was replaced in the living room by a window at some point. We want to reinstate it as an exterior door in its rightful place in the future. So...we had to put a different door in its place. This door was in the apartment of the house when we bought the home. There was a room on the south side of the apartment that had 2 doors. This was one of those doors. It had the antique florentine glass in it originally. It is a short door (77") & all the other doors in the butler's pantry are all 96" tall. We had this window with florentine glass that came from the church that was torn down on the southeast corner of E 5th & N Benton Streets. It worked out perfectly to fill in the space to allow us to keep the full height of the trim. I'm loving it!
