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  2. Rivermont Collegiate - Wikipedia

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    The second floor contained several bedrooms, a large sitting room and servant quarters. A ballroom was located on the third floor, and at one time two bowling alleys were located in the basement. Craftsmen added Italian marble, carved stone, molded plaster and hand-carved woodwork, doors, paneling and staircases throughout the home.

  3. Servants' quarters - Wikipedia

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    The upper servants in large households often withdrew from the servants' hall to eat their dessert courses in the privacy of a steward's room in much the same way the owners of the house had withdrawn to a solar from the Great Hall in the previous era. Strict orders of precedence and deference evolved which became sacrosanct.

  4. West Virginia Governor's Mansion - Wikipedia

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    In 1926, servant's quarters were added atop a garage, along with private gardens. Since its completion, the mansion has had several redecorations, including one in 1937 and one in 1958. The original building plans for the mansion included a third story, but one was not added until much later, in 1946.

  5. Plantation complexes in the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    Still other arrangements had the kitchen in one room, a laundry in the other, and a second story for servant quarters. [ 8 ] [ 17 ] The pantry could be in its own structure or in a cool part of the cookhouse or a storehouse and would have secured items such as barrels of salt , sugar , flour , cornmeal and the like.

  6. House of the Vettii - Wikipedia

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    The plan of the House of the Vettii is commonly divided into five major sections: the large atrium (c), the small atrium (v), the large peristyle (l-m), the small peristyle, and the shop (). [5] The house features a large garden as well as main living quarters and servant quarters.

  7. Slave quarters in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Encyclopedia of Louisville (2014) described slave quarters in the border-state city: "Generally, urban slaves' quarters were connected to their owners' property, usually in 'servant's rooms.' A typical newspaper ad from this period described a brick house for sale as having eleven rooms, two passages, a large kitchen, three servants' rooms ...

  8. ‘12 Badass Women’ by Huffington Post

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    Rosa Parks. Susan B. Anthony. Helen Keller. These are a few of the women whose names spark instant recognition of their contributions to American history.

  9. The Breakers - Wikipedia

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    The third floor contains eight bedrooms and a sitting room decorated in Louis XVI style walnut paneling by Ogden Codman. The north wing of the third-floor quarters were reserved for domestic servants. Using ceilings nearly 18-foot-high (5.5 m), Richard Morris Hunt created two separate third floors to allow a mass aggregation of servant bed ...