The Hill House Servants: Life Downstairs
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Uploaded by minnesotahistory on Jan 6, 2012
Not unlike the divided household of Downton Abbey, we have a dramatic example of upstairs/downstairs life right here in Minnesota. The "Empire Builder" James J. Hill and his family were the primary occupants of 240 Summit Avenue but another, less familiar group of people lived there as well: the 10 to 12 live-in domestic servants who did the cleaning, cooking, laundry, and maintenance work at the house. In piecing together the stories of these servants, information is culled from a variety of sources that can be found in the collections of the Minnesota Historical Society.
[Please note: the silver calling card tray shown in the podcast was a gift from Peter ffolliott, not the family of Axel Johnson. We regret the error.]
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