City of Riverside California Metropolitan Museum

Bath of Heritage House

    Mrs. Bettner was among the first Riverside residents to have a truly modern bathroom. The earliest known Riverside indoor residential bathroom was installed in 1884, but, even seven years later when this house was built, most homes were still reliant upon outhouses and residents took baths in tin tubs in the kitchen so that the water could be heated on the stove.

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