Objects that were noted as being located at Rushmore, Pitt-Rivers' residence in Cranborne Chase
A large number of items (9730) are noted as having been located at Rushmore at one time (though many were later moved to Farnham Museum). Of these 5074 (52.1 per cent) were stored or displayed in unknown locations within the house. There are a number of standard locations within the house that are noted in the catalogue held by the Cambridge University Library, and the number of objects stored in each one at some point are noted below. Please note that items were moved around Rushmore, so one object might have two or more locations within the house:
Bathroom = 4
Bedroom (unspecified) = 2 (see other specified bedrooms below)
Bedroom on second landing = 33
Billiard Room = 14
Blue Room = 15
Boudoir = 58
Breakfast room = 2
Butler's Pantry = 189 (this room is called a number of different things, but appears to be only one destination)
Chintz Dressing Room = 1
Coin Cabinets = 132
Corridors = 664
Dining Room = 49
Draughtsman's Office = 9
Drawing Room = 265
Front Yard = 2
Galleries = 1535 (this appears to be a number of different galleries, but they are not very clearly identified)
Garden = 2
General's Room = 484
Gold case (also known as pedestal case) = 166
Ground floor bedroom = 129
Guard's Room = 7
Halls = 85 (see also vestibule and porch, there was an inner and outer hall)
Housekeeper's Room = 2
Housemaids Room = 2
Landings = 42 (there appears to have been more than one landing)
Library = 5
Lord Rivers' bedroom = 2
Mrs Rivers' bedroom = 4
Nursery = 1
Oak Gallery = 26 (see also galleries above)
Office = 421
Pink bedroom = 5
Plate Room = 6
Porch = 6 (see also Halls and vestibule)
Rope room = 7
Servants Bedroom = 1
Servants Hall = 37
Smoking Room = 635
Stables = 1
Staircase = 135
Study = 4
Lord Rivers' study = 1
Vestibule = 59
Note that the detailed ramifications of these locations will be discussed elsewhere. A further 5070 objects are noted as being located at Rushmore but without a specific room being identified.
By size of objects located there:
Galleries = 1535
Corridors = 664
Smoking Room = 635
General's Room = 484
Office = 421
Drawing Room = 265
Butler's Pantry = 189
All Bedrooms (except servants) = 175 ( 129 in Ground floor bedroom)
Gold case = 166
Staircase = 135
Coin Cabinets = 132
Halls = 85
Vestibule = 59
Boudoir = 58
Dining Room = 49
Landings = 42
Servants Hall = 37
Blue Room = 15
Billiard Room = 14
Draughtsman's Office = 9
Guard's Room = 7
Rope room = 7
Plate Room = 6
Porch = 6
Library = 5
Bathroom = 4
Study = 4
Breakfast room = 2
Front Yard = 2
Garden = 2
Housekeeper's Room = 2
Housemaids Room = 2
Chintz Dressing Room = 1
Nursery = 1
Servants Bedroom = 1
Stables = 1
It is notable that the largest number of items were displayed in the galleries. Other areas are the gold case (situated on a corridor), and the coin cabinets. Some other areas appear to have been used for display like the halls and vestibule, the staircases and landings, the smoking room (which each have a very high number of objects).
The drawing room and dining room were used to house objets d'art and dining related artefacts respectively. The butler stored the items of plate, including gold and silver plate. There are surprisingly few items stored in the Library, and study. But perhaps these were family rooms and Pitt-Rivers preferred to store or work on objects in his own room, in a ground floor bedroom and in the office and draughtsman's office. Mrs Pitt-Rivers' accommodation features surprisingly strongly including her boudoir and bedroom.
AP, June 2010
