The Unsupported Spiral Stairway Rises to the Grand Hallway.
Old Milk House. Slaves pumped cool cistern water into long zinc vats providing Auburn’s cooling system for its crocks of milk.
Food prepared in the kitchen below the servants’ quarters was carried in hot urns to dining rooms by servants stationed along “the ways”.
Belmont
Sturdy as the Rock of Gibraltar stands this imposing Neo-Greek mansion. It was known originally as “Cleremont”, and was built in the early 40’s by one Loxley Thistle.
Storm and strife have beaten against the doors of this stronghold but it was built after a disastrous tornado which put a great fear in the minds of builders of that period, and Belmont (as it was renamed) was constructed to resist fierce storms, although at the same time exquisite lines of beauty were maintained.