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A
third floor bathroom, c. 1927.
Historical Society of Washington |
- The first
bath tubs in the White House were portable and made
of tin; water was hauled in buckets.
- Running
water was piped into the White House in 1833.
- Gaslighting,
installed in the White House in 1848, replaced candles
and oil lamps.
- A central
heating system was installed in the White House in
1837 when many people still warmed themselves with
a log or coal fire.
- Running
hot water was first piped into the first family’s
second floor bathroom in 1853.
- In 1801
a cooking stove replaced the kitchen’s open-hearth
fireplace for preparing meals.
- The White
House had its first hydraulic elevator installed in
1881, its first electric elevator in 1898.
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