From Animal House to Our House

For months, we went through the jumble of parts in the basement to see what we could recover. Some things, like the vestibule doors and beadboard, were reusable; those that weren't salvageable, like the original marble sink for the master bath, at least gave us a sense of what used to be in the house and a reason to go shopping.

Some of the few interior details to escape the fraternity's destruction were 15 ornate cast-iron steam radiators, which we scraped, cleaned, and repainted in matte gold.