More recent in America than people think. Most NYC Brownstones have separate entrances for servant quarters beneath the stoops. It was common in middle-class suburbia even through the 1960s. Apparently, appliances put maids out of work. Are appliances not widespread in India?
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Where electricity is reliable, washing machines are common. Dishwashers, vacuums, not so much.
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I live in an apartment in a brownstone in brooklyn that was almost certainly created to be a live-in servant's apartment in the original intended usage of the building. in the 1880s, when it was built, this pattern was prevalent.
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