Part 14. The ladies' parlor is immediately beneath the choir platform and is a large cool room reached by a stairway from the Main Street entrance, and connected at its eastern end with the dining room and (p. 176) kitchen and other basement rooms. Toilet rooms are conveniently located, one on the main floor adjoining the pastor's study, the other in the basement immediately beneath. The kitchen is directly beneath the Young People's Bible Class room, and the dining room directly beneath the Sunday-school auditorium, while beneath the infant class room is a large and well-appointed china closet. In the rear of this, and separated by a narrow passageway, are two robing rooms. The basement beneath the main auditorium is unfinished, and is used for storing fuel and for the heating apparatus. Here is located the machinery for operating the partition separating the two auditoriums. The entire building is heated by three large furnaces, arranged in a battery so that any one or all may be used, according as the weather requires. The ventilating is done by a stack and a system of ducts leading from the floor to a foul-air room in the basement, where a stack heater in summer produces a current of air, and draws the foul air from the rooms above, changing the air in the rooms completely in about twenty minutes. The plastering, an excellent piece of workmanship, was done by Mr. F. S. Asbury, of Cynthiana, the son of Vertner S. Asbury, who more than sixty years ago plastered the first church built upon this lot. (p. 177) The frescoing was done by Wm. A. Lay & Co., of Cincinnati, whose good taste and skill are everywhere manifest in the harmonious and beautiful effects produced. The memorial windows are especially attractive, and deserve special mention. The large triple window on Main Street is the gift of Mr. George Wilson, of St. Louis, and is in honor of his father and mother. The design is the Ascension. The corresponding window on Mill Street is the gift of Mrs. Artie Ashbrook and her family, and is in honor of her husband, Thos. V. Ashbrook. The design is the Good Shepherd. Above the Main Street entrance is the Resurrection, the gift of the C. W. B. M., and the corresponding window above the Mill Street entrance is the gift of M. D. Martin, in memory of his daughter, Sue Martin Stewart. The design is a bunch of lilies. To the right of the organ is a beautiful window in memory of Louis M. Martin, placed there by his father, M. D. Martin, and to the left a similar window perpetuates the memory of Dr. H. Rutherford and wife Elizabeth, and grandson, Holman R. Wherritt, and is the gift of Mrs. Mary R. Wherritt. In the infant room. is a window in memory of Kathleen Lafferty, Christ Blessing Little Children, given by her mother, Mrs. W. T. Lafferty. In the ladies' parlor, presented by Mrs. Anna Gibson (p. 178) Shawhan, is a beautiful window, design a sheaf of wheat. The building is lighted throughout by electricity, the fixtures consisting of a beautiful chandelier in either auditorium, and suitable chandeliers, brackets, etc., in the various rooms. The furniture consists of a large two-manual Pilcher pipe-organ, operated by water-power; circular oak pews in both main and Sunday-school auditoriums, and chairs in the class-rooms. The main floors are carpeted with Hartford body-brussels. The following donations also deserve mention - A desk and two chairs for the Sunday-school room, by the Robert Mitchell Furniture Company; a desk for the ladies' parlor, by Mrs. Maud Throckmorton; a hundred-piece dinner set, by the John Shillito Company; a Bible for the pulpit, by Mrs. Jane Garnett, containing the following inscription: " Presented to the Christian Church of Cynthiana by Mrs. Jane Ashbrook Garnett, its oldest member, aged eighty-three years, on the occasion of the dedication of its new house of worship, this June 16, igoi;" the furniture for the Young People's Bible Class room, consisting of a table, presented by W. S. Cason, and two dozen chairs and a Royal Wilton velvet carpet, presented by the class. . The cost of the building, including additional lot, removing old building, furniture etc., all complete, and ready for occupancy, is as follows: (p. 179) Cost Of lot...............................$1,750 00 Removing old building................... 176.00 Excavation...................................200.00 Foundation................................1,645.28 Building above foundation............23,289.95 Leaded glass windows.................... 440.00 Wiring church................................34.50 Frescoing.................................... 300 00 Architects.....................................600.00 Electric fixtures............................. 342.00 Furnaces.................................... 583.90 Organ...................................... 1,500.00 Pews and pulpit furniture.................2,350.00 Carpets.................................... 1,134.48 Fence..........................................244.80 Pavement and curbing.......................592.90 Grading and sodding..........................35.00 Sewer........................................... 70.00 Cistern and pump..............................43.75 Sundry small items...........................157.50 Curtain for infant room....................... 25.00 The following donations in addition to the contracts of the committee:……........$35,515.06 Sunday-school chairs........................$123.15 Furniture for Y. P. B. C. room................94.00 Memorial windows..........................1,183.00 Furniture ladies, parlor..........................46.00 Rock for foundation, by Mrs. Megibben..........................................80.00 ................................................$1,526.15 Making a total cost of......................$37,041 21 -- Bob Francis 1920A Butner St. Ft. Eustis, VA 23604 My Homepage is: http://www.shawhan.com Ruddell's Fort Page: http://www.shawhan.com/ruddlesfort.html Early Bourbon County Families Page: http://www.shawhan.com/bourbonfamilies.html