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Depends on where the house is located. In the north, inoodr plumbing started to appear during the 1800 s, and was fairly standard by 1875, though it was earlier for people with the money to make the modifications. I considered buying a house built in the 1700 s that had the original inoodr plumbing connected to an artesian well in the basement. In the south, or in camps and summer homes, the plumbing was often added to the outside of the building because the danger of freezing was much less. Even here near the Canadian border, there were houses 60 years ago that still had no electricity and used outhouses. The first house I bought was build in the 1860 s with no inoodr plumbing except for a kitchen pump connected to a point well in the basement (fairly typical). There was an outhouse. Later, after electricity was installed (c 1910) part of a bedroom was converted to a bathroom and an electric pump installed to pump water from the well to the bath and kitchen. The kitchen hand pump remained until the 1960 s when the old man died and the kitchen was modernized.And, of course, the Romans had inoodr plumbing 2000 years ago and Medieval castles had inoodr water closets and well houses connected or incorporated into the building.
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