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>Well, where one considers the back door, that is quite >dependent on which door one would consider to be the >front door. I was calling entrance in the parlor the >"Main Entrance" because that's what everyone else >called it, but it really wasn't used for that purpose >often. > >Us kids got the most use out of it, because whenever >Mrs C drove us to school, she always picked us up >under the portico. (Which was directly outside of the >parlor) > >When my Parents or Grandparents entered or exited the >house, they typically used the East Garage! (Because >that's where their cars were kept.) While Uncle and >his friends used the West Garage. > >(Uncle kept his cars and motorcycles in it, as well as >he spent his spare time working on vehicles and engins >there.) > >Most of the time, Mr and Mrs C used the East Garage as >well. They had one of those things for electronically >opening the main garage doors. > >Mr K, Mrs B, and the cleaning ladies seemed to always >use the side door, located between the West Garage and >the wing extension. That door was technically on the >North side of the main house. (But it was still south >of the wing extension) > >There was a door from the ballroom to the pool, at the >end of the wing extension, and technically it faced >the northwest. > >(But there was a wall between the pool and the ravine. >You'd have to go out of the pool yard, all the way >around the outer wall, and down a trail along the side >of the ravine, in order to get to the true back of >the house.) > >So the most direct way, into the ravine (our back >yard) from the house was through the dog kennel, which >was directly underneath the main house's basement. > >(Originally, when the house was first built, in the >late 1860s, I think it was a barn for sheep that were >kept on the property. But my Father converted it into >a kennel for my mother in 72, just after I was born.) > >I very commonly exited our house through that kennel, >into the ravine, because that was where the back-trail >started that led back to the houses, and past my >Best-Friend's house. (It was also the starting point >of the back-trail towards the lumberyard.)

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