What Was Considered a Modern House in 1800?
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"Ever wondered what a 'modern' house looked like in the year 1800? Step into the opulent world of Charles Carroll, a man who spared no expense in creating the house of his dreams. From artisan millwork to luxurious four-poster beds, discover the incredible details and dramatic backstory of this stunning Palladian-style mansion, known today as the Homewood Museum
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It's fortunate this house didn't end up like so many. Donation to large institutions is no guarantee. That it's in use is awesome!
Man... I wish modern houses were 10% as artistic as this.
Looks outdated to me
Other styles have aged better i think... They should paint it white
You’re hilarious. Modern houses are more architecturally appealing. Can you afford it?
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@@debbylou5729 I know a good optometrist you can get an appointment with.
How restrained a full blown Federal house is compared to the Louis styled mansions of the wealthy 100 years in the future. Still impressively beautiful in its quiet elegance.
True class seldom has to raise its voice.
So true. The gilded age produced architecture of excess in many styles. But then came the quality and simplicity of Craftsman style and Art Deco, which I love.
Everything looks restrained in black and white. When seen in color some of the carpets and wallpaper appear rather garish. And the walls in one of the rooms is painted a bright teal green.
@@daniel_sc1024 the photos only being black and white was pretty irritating honestly.
I was a student at Johns Hopkins in the early 1980s. When I first showed up on campus, Homewood House was where the admissions department was located. Was fun climbing the old staircase into what seemed like an attic to discuss my financial aid award.
I was interested in its history but the only parts I was able to unearth at that time were earlier uses once it had been donated to Hopkins. At first, it was a dormitory. There were bunkbeds in that attic space. Not sure what the lower floors were used for. It went through many uses before becoming the admissions office and then getting restored as a museum.
After graduating, I read about the excavation that was done at the time of the restoration. They were searching for clues to make the renovation 100% accurate. Since there were no photographs in the early 19th Century, it required a lot of detective work. As part of the excavation, they found tons of broken glassware. Broken wine bottles, reflecting how much alcohol had been consumed. Apparently, Mr. Carroll was quite the lush.
This home is very grand & opulent yet it seems cozy & comfortable!!! How nice that it's open to the public!!! 👍👍🙂
I loved this house when I toured it. To be honest, I really like these 5 part houses. My favorite room is the dining room. The idea of a crumb cloth under the table is a good one, especially, if you have the staff to keep moving the table and chairs to pick it up and shake it out! Excellent video.
Wow! I've never seen this. It's beautiful. Chillingly perfect in proportion. The clean logical floor plan shows sophistication. It's very English inspirational. It's odd being historically so close to the American Revolution with the dust still figuratively setting and then building this "Brit love" of a design. But a part of me feels proud this is in America because it is so perfect.
Palladian is just the Brits trying to pretend that they didn't miss the first half of the Baroque Period.
But you make a good point. Given the time period, that's a very interesting choice of architectural styles.
@@reklin I also feel this house has elements of Georgian, with the brickwork and for sure influences of Thomas Jefferson. It reminds me very much of Monticello in terms of floorplan and design. I can see how it was influenced by the Brits, but to me this is destinctly an American style.
Beautiful home. Parts reminded me of the design of Jefferson's Monticello. In Carroll's house, I like the upstairs family room best.
I think this is one of my favorite of all the houses you’ve ever shown.
By far preferred to the later Victorian cluttered, overly layered, busy patterns and thick materials. Clean defined lines, spaces, and smooth light pated walls, the statement far more reasonable for a mind to relax and to think.
The entrance remains the most appealing of Architectural Designs, the Greeks having achieved the most Modern of lines.
This home was a true achievement of design.
Too bad there were so few whom understood the basics of water pressure, that which existed centuries before on the Islands in the Mediterranean, specifically in the Minoan Culture, later in Pompeii.
The English/British Germanics more interested in warfare than hygiene.
With the Smokey skies out there it looks like Pompeii. In PA/NJ
This is a very fine and elegantly proportioned house, that I was fortunate to visit in 2022. Another great video!
When I toured the house over 20 years ago, it had recently been refreshed with accurate paint colors and exuberant draperies with extensive passementerie. Loved the bright green and yellows, the layered textiles and the custom tassels.
I was struck that the kitchen was actually in the house. Most large homes of this era would have had the kitchen as a separate building since the fireplace would have been lit all day. This house was built before the invention of the cooking stove and fire was a real danger in the kitchen. Also a 4 seater privy, that's impressive....lol.
I have seen a few old homes with multiple seats in the privy. I guess they didn’t expect the privacy that we do!
The black and white marble floor is stunning. That view from the master bedroom doorway looking down the hall is amazing!
I’ve never heard of this museum, but have to say it’s one of the most beautiful homes I’ve ever seen.
Man this house is....
BEAUTIFUL!!!!
Love how you lead the tour!
Enter in the front, down the hall, across the hall to the back of the house, flooded with light, where the family gathered, each scene sticks in my head lol…. Instantly familiar. Very handsome and functional, not a monstrosity lol.
Cooking for many people at 4am? I’m familiar with that - I was in the Army lol. Enjoy your Memorial Day all the friends of … This 🏠! 🎖️
It is a stunning house. I grew up north of Baltimore and never knew about this home. Thank you for showing us.
I have been a docent at Homewood for nine years now. I love everything about this house & the history that comes with it.❤
Nice! Hey Ken, can you make a video showing us a modern house in 1700? I really like that era because of the Revolutionary War. Then, maybe a modern house in 1900, if you haven't already. Thanks!
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Thank you for the suggestion, I think that would be a really fun video to make! I'll keep an eye out for a really good example of a modern house in 1700. Cheers!
Monticello would be modern wouldn't it?
But did it have WiFi?
This is such a beautiful house. But opulent is the best word for these homes. I guess my tastes are much more simplistic. Even if I had the money I couldn't spend it like this. But a wonderful video! Thank you!
The home definitely follows the Greco-Roman (and later, Renaissance) theories of balance and symmetry. While I love a good old "Queen Anne Victorian", these houses are so pleasing to the eye. I thought it interesting the patterned floor was included in the wine cellar. In 1800, many places that are now very urban, where still part of the Frontier. No nearby police to call. What struck me was all of the locking cabinets, for the china, silver, book, and probably business ledgers, etc. in the office. It's interesting to see many of the design elements used here reproduced in the Revival styles of the early 20th Century.
I appreciate seeing house plans, for it gives me a sense of the room arrangements. 👍
I love the plaster & millwork details. They do get pricey though even today. Pocket shutters are rarely ever done anymore.
It's. A. Beautiful. 🏡
I love the office and privy. I wish houses had character today. I love the wine cellar too.
The black and white tile and woodwork is remarkable.
It's really hard to accurately calculate inflation from that far back because economics were quite different. Some things were incredibly cheap, such as labor and lodging. Others were quite expensive relative to similar items today. This would include things that had to be made, often by hand, such as clothes and furniture. Few, outside of the very well off, would have had more than a few sets of clothes to their name. The poor often owned only the clothes on their back. Further complicating efforts to calculate inflation was that money back then was backed (in theory) by silver. But each bank printed its own money and standards for how much specie they had to hold in reserve varied, often dramatically. The result was that some banks, and their paper currency, were considered safer and had more value than others. When dealing with money matters from the land of long ago, I usually just speak in general terms when comparing to modern valuations. In 1800, $10,000 was a lot of money, and $40,000 was a fortune. A few notes, unskilled labor was paid around a dollar a day. Skilled labor such as carpenters might make $1.50 a day. A healthy male slave could be purchased for between $500-1,000. A 2 br log cabin in rural upstate New York could be had for about $100 and land in the Genessee Valley was going for .25 cents /acre. In 1800 President Adams (the first one) was paid, a whopping $25,000 pa making him easily the highest paid public official in the country. It is generally acknowledged that the salary for that office, currently $400k, has been in slow decline when adjusting for inflation.
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Agree completely, Don't rely on google ask an historian of the period. My guess is his son's extravagance nearly ruined his father
I have always wondered about the accuracy of monetary translation. Thanks for the education!
Both homewood and Evergreen are great house museums! Hopkins has really done an excellent job preserving both of them, and they tell two entirely different stories of baltimores history
This is a great video, but I have one little quibble. The owners and guests in a house of this stature would have used a chamber pot in their bedroom for their daily toilet. Enslaved people would clear away the used pots. In parts of the US and in Europe, the job would fall to the servants. Garden privies were built for the owners and guests to use when they were taking a walk, admiring the flowers, or having a picnic.
I liked the unique floor treatments. They were different but they all were fitting. I would love to visit this beauty.
It's unfortunate that Charles was furious at Charles Jr. for going over budget. Yet one wonders what legacy remains of the rest of Charles Sr's wealth.
One of the most beautiful houses that I have ever seen 😍 ❤️
So they paid $1m in todays money for that house!! I call that going for a song!! As someone living in London & having visited most European capitals as well as New York most comparable properties on the market today would be $20 million+!! The CHEAPEST properties for sale in London today i.e 1 bed flats in new build high rises now are asking the equivalent of $750,000....Fabulous house & I love the classical design.....
That was a joy to watch
Doughoregan Manor, the Grandfathers house he moved to, is the only signer of the Declaration of Independence whose family still owns the signers home. Now, THAT is a house I'd love to see! Carrollton Hall was also paid for by Charles Carroll for his Grand daughter. The plaster work in that house is also amazing.
Very enjoyable! Thank you!
Lovely building. Thank you for the video!
Beautiful, thank you!
Thank you for showing the floor plan. Love to see the floor plan.
What a beautiful well thought-out home. Such a sad history
Another one saved !!!!!! thank you Ken !!!!!!!!
What a trim, timeless take on those classic European bones. I bet his tailor was incredible. 🤔
I’d give anything to live in something so beautiful!
That gorgeous office floor. ❤
Elegant. 👍
Thanks for the tour! This is only an hours drive away. It is on my list of places to go but had never made it yet.
You should do a series on almshouses
With no indoor plumbing? Hmmmm...l want to go! It's Beautiful! 😊
I love everything about the house
This house reminds me of Robert E Lee's Home, though smaller and actually it was inherited by the General's wife, who was also related to George Washington.
A ecommended tour.
Thanks!
Thank you so much for the super thanks! Every bit of this money will go towards the production of these videos! Cheers!
Ken, just beautiful!
Yes, I love three rooms, that beloinging to the housekeeper, the kitchne, and the wine cellar.
I had a grandmother born in 1890. She died when I was very young…..yes, I’m old and yes, we live a long time. She was 98. Anyway she wouldn’t even entertain having a fireplace. Every room in their house had one and it was her job to clean them and leave everything needed for a fresh fire
An absolutely fabulous home, but those patterned floors would give a person vertigo!
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I would just live in one room if it had bath an kitchenette😂
Just thinking, who would trade their bathrooms for this beautiful house?
Terrific channel. Just wish the sound quality was better so that the commentary was more clear.
sounds great on my really high end headphones. and on my tv. maybe your speakers are shot?
Lovely home/mansion …….I’m a dork - I noticed the Ademco 5890 (Honeywell/Resideo 5890) over some of the interior doors next to smoke detectors. 🥴
Would have been nice in color.
A very beautiful home!!Has beautiful curb appeal. Can’t imagine a home of this size without some semblance of bathroom facilities for family and guests alike. An outdoor pricy seems different as this is a large house but nonetheless a beautiful home!!! Great videos always enjoy your channel👌💖😊🌺🇨🇦🇨🇦
But that privy could hold EIGHT people at once! Luxury!
How interesting to see "modern" living so long ago.
Don't forget, chamber pots in the bedrooms so that one did not have to march in the middle of the night to the outhouse.
I can hardly believe that the ladies used the outdoor privy. More than likely the men and the children did.
@@ad6417 Believe it. Women too used the outdoor privy or like everyone else the chamber pot at night. There was a time for example in pre revolutionary France, women would squat in their large dresses and go that way, i.e. on the floor for a servant to clean. Much later when public restrooms became common for men, women's restrooms really did not exist and women were expected to hold it until they got home. Why I am talking about was in the late 19th Century when women could go to a department store and other type venue unescorted. Not until after the turn of the 20th Century did more and more public restrooms for women become common. In the third decade of the 21st Century there is still not "potty parity" for women in public facilities.
The desk so close to the fireplace in the butlers office would have been a terrible mistake. The heat from the fireplace would have destroyed the desk. There surely would have been a better setup than that.
At the time that desk wasn't an expensive antique, but a rather simple piece of utilitarian furniture. The butler would have been more concerned with staying warm in winter than his desk getting heated.
It reminds me of Stratford Hall in Virginia
"Modesty, for readying themselves in the morning"...then you go outside to take care of bodily functions while sitting beside someone you might not even know. Ri-ight.
I could live in that place very easily right now except I'd want indoor bathrooms.
I like the idea of hiding bookshelves or China/Tableware with a simple wood door.
Those houses were built on the first floor high to keep dust from getting in.road dust was a problem ack then roads pathways were very dusty.
Can you now do a video of What Was Considered a Modern House in 1799?
40 thousand dollars from that time is TENS of millions today.
Did they have wireless internet?
There’s another great video called Why We Don’t Build “Beautiful” Buildings Anymore.
Inflation calculator says that from 1913 10k is $310k++. So it's waaaay more than a quarter milli. 😢
No partitions in the privy.
That's a bit much.
$250k today you say? No, that's over a mill today my guy lol
Def didn't have lasers in the 1800s. You see the tile at 1:37? Wow it's bad
The part of Homewood that tickles me most is the outhouse, which is still there. It's brick. A rich man's outhouse. Literally, a brick shithouse.
3:45 Do you think everyone got their own seat, or were there parties in the privy?
Modern day equivalent of $1M with only two bedrooms blows my mind
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At first I thought the photo was Graceland.
I'm pretty sure the modern-day equivalent of this house is closer to $50,000,000 than $1,000,000.
Right you have to take into account what it would cost to build that today.
Not no fifty million dollar 🏠 there's no such thing
What about the lower level?
Certainly not the average home. Tall ceilings to help cool and a lot of fireplaces because wood and coal were cheap and plentiful. However houses this big also had servants to keep it up. These houses are abandoned because no one can pay the taxes and do not have electricity or indoor plumbing . I suppose they could be retrofitted but usually these people just built another house.
Is Monticello considered “modern” for its time?
Built with no power tools , no home Depot. No cement trucks, much of the glass would be special order and somehow those huge windows shipped without breaking. Enormous amount of labor.
I can’t imagine living without indoor plumbing.
In 1800 indoor plumbing was nothing more than a chamber pot.
That’s the modern equivalent to a million dollars? Where I live, a million dollars will get you a run-down, century-old, 800-square-foot timber-frame bungalow near downtown. I wish I could get a house like this one for a million dollars…
I won't buy new homes. I love old homes.
Imagine building a house like this for 250k
The toilet sits four!
he knew his daddy very well. (with an extra 20 grand)
Hopefully the grandson allowed his Mom and Dad to live in the house or on the estate. Main bedroom.
Records show that Charles Carroll IV lived in the mansion for about a decade. However, It appears that he was not allowed to live there for his entire life and passed away shortly after vacating the home.
Why did it cost $40,000 when most labor in those days, was enslaved?
Slaves costed money still. You had to feed and house them and pay for the Slave themself. Not to mention skilled labor
Houses in this price range are
Did everybody live in houses like that in the 1800's?
No. Only the wealthy. Most poor folk could not afford to live in a house like that unless they worked for the owners. (Either as paid labor or as slaves.)
Am I understanding that correct? built for one million dollars in today's money? seems awful reasonable to me,
"Finished out"?
What happened??? Even my great-grandparents who came over on the boat in 1906-1910 had cute Colonial style homes to raise their lil guindaloons in. America used to be a lot prettier.