Hi Linda and others:
Here in Chula Vista, in my 1890s home, is a small room that was used by the farmers to take off their muddy clothing and slip into garments appropriate to traverse the rest of the house.
From what I understand, clothing worn during fumigation, as well as dirty footwear could be removed and then taken directly outdoors for cleaning/laundering.
My place originally did not have indoor running water.
The mud room allowed privacy; and the other “small room” (outhouse) was too small for this.
Apparently some of these mud rooms had slatted floors to allow debris to fall underneath the house.
I do not know what the configuration of my mud room was originally; it was attached to outside wooden porch of the lean to kitchen on one side and goes into what was a sitting room into the house proper.
All the flooring was changed during the 1930s, then again the 1970s, so I can’t see from underneath.
Currently my former mud room is a bathroom with a tub blocking the wall that would have been the outside entrance from the kitchen back porch.
The original owner of my home was from Kentucky, and worked here as a farmer, mostly lemons, apricots and wheat. He even tried growing tobacco here!
If you google “mud room” you’ll get examples of (much more glamorous) ones than I believe was here...
Thanks,
Susan
From: LINDA K DERRY
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2022 6:50 AM
To: Susan Wlater
Subject: Re: mud room
Susan,
I'm not sure what you mean by a mudroom. Please explain.
Linda Derry
Site Director, Old Cahawba Archaeological Park
Alabama Historical Commission
9518 Cahaba Road, Orrville, AL 36767
park: 334/ 875-2529
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On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 3:21 PM Susan Wlater <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi All,
Has anyone excavated a mudroom?
Thanks,
S. Walter
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