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Call Buttons

About this photograph

Provider
Biltmore Company
Date created
2007
Location
Asheville, North Carolina
License
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Call buttons

This photograph shows a servants’ call button station located on a dark paneled wall in Biltmore House. There are two round flat white buttons placed vertically on a metal, rectangular, wall plate. The top button has the words “Butler’s Pantry” printed on it. The bottom button has no words on it. By pushing one of the call buttons, a low-voltage circuit would run to one of the call boxes found in servants’ work areas throughout the house.