If your house has a tiny elevator hiding behind a knee-high door, congratulations—you’ve got a built-in butler who works for peanuts. Today we’ll trace where dumbwaiters came from, how they actually work, why they vanished from houses by the mid-century. These unique home features that were the rage of the Gilded-Age (i’m watching the HBO […] The post The Dumbwaiter: A Unique History appeared first on The Craftsman Blog.
