~ the caretaker’s floor plan ~

Site Map of Shaw Manor

Every room and every dusty shelf, one line per page, grouped the way the Rooms menu is.

The Front Hall

Shaw Manor — the front hall: the case file, the darkroom, the study, the gallery and the van out back

The Flight Deck — drone aerial photos from the rooftop control tower
The Steamer Trunk — luggage tags for public travel photo albums
Kentucky Bourbon 2005 — a gallery from two distillery visits, Heaven Hill and Buffalo Trace
Kentucky Roadside Polaroids — a gallery of instant-film snapshots, 2010–2011
The Haunts — Halloween costumes, haunts and Fall Festivities albums
The Bird Log — a field journal of backyard feeder visitors
Manor Grounds Weather — live readings from the manor grounds weather station

The Camera Obscura — old cameras in a red-lit darkroom
The Reading Room — comics, magazines and books
The Radio Room — hi-fi, the turntable and the Phone Booth of old cell phones
The TV Room — a three-screen Sony console, the Now Showing set and the LaserDiscs
Triple Feature: the Sony TV-311R — the TV Room’s three-screen television, looked up
The Workshop — 3D prints, flexi critters and Pi gadgets
The Kitchen — chili cook-off, grill, bakery and diner counter
The Art Gallery — Vanity Fair prints, Robert Bohn originals, the Scrappy wing and a digital wing

The Plate Wall — old license plates on the back stairs
The Locksmith’s Briefcase — a lock-picking kit in an aluminum briefcase
The Shoebox — an Airwalk box from the basement, lid and all: 23 exhibits as found
The Tape Vault — Shaggy's YouTube Music playlist, dubbed onto tapes
The Screening Room — a basement video store and the 1997 movie Joey, two reels off a moldy VHS tape
The Game Room — arcade, pinball, board games and consoles
The Bottle Cellar — old bottles, crocks, flasks and decanters
Dr. Brooks’ Apothecary — the builder’s drug store: W.T. Brooks, Paris druggist, in old clippings and privy-dug bottles

The Skate Shop — decks, fingerboards and ridden survivors
Mystery Inc. Clubhouse — the clubhouse out back: Scooby-Doo toys, LEGO sets, art and a clue board

Talk of the Town — the family restaurant in Carlisle, KY, told on a green guest check
J&J Liquors — the store next door, its walk-in cooler and the wet/dry votes of 1982–83
The Locker Room — sports cards, slabs and wax
Neal’s Square Deal — the family grocery on West Main, now the Neal Welcome Center & Museum
The Post Office — old Kentucky postcards, cancelled stamps and hand-lettered mail art
The Postcard Rack — the Post Office’s full spinner of old postcards: Paris, the Bluegrass, family mail and comic cards

The Secret Passage — a hidden corridor behind the loose book: Manor lore · unverified
Site Map — this floor plan