1800s Bathroom

Some baths featured other rooms for steam sauna or exercise.
1800s bathroom. The bathtub shower and toilet are all part of the same piece of wooden furniture. Everybody needs more storage in their bathrooms. Ancient relics such as the framed tin ceiling tiles displayed on the far wall and industrial stool set in the shower round out this room s vintage.
There was usually a reception area apodyterium a hot room caldarium a warm room tepidarium and a cold room frigidarium. Like a cosmic event where all of the stars and planets line up the phenomenon that we know as the modern bathroom all came together in the late 1800s. An 1850s bathroom that has survived more than 150 years in the dunleith historical inn in natchez miss.
The city sewer systems central heating hot and cold running water the perfection of indoor plumbing and pipes the invention of the flush toilet the invention of the stationary bathtub and sink the realization that all of these things could best be utilized in one room and new social programs promoting personal cleanliness and hygiene. A lot of us have sort of trained our bodies to relieve themselves at near the same time every day and if you were a victorian woman you would have eaten drank and taken physical exercise at about the same time each day. An antique cupboard like the one pictured here contributes a nostalgic form that conveniently houses towels toilet paper and extra toiletries.