been there 15 yrs ago. there's definitely a certain feeling about the place. one must experience for themselves!

My husband I were living in MN in the mid 1990's, and we visited the Hill House to take a tour. The docents were so rude that we left without taking the tour. Even all these years later, it stings. I hope that they have hired better people to represent the Hill House since our unsettling visit.

@lavenderflowersfall280

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha I was 6 years old in the mid-90s! sorry about your imposing experience though I'll have to take it up with the lady of the house through her lady in waiting

@rockertopunk

Жыл бұрын

No they haven't. I had a 3 year old and an older lady whom didn't speak much english (she wasn't listening) so they we're annoyed we took a little longer than the group. Straight rushed us through.

@bruiserbong4001

9 ай бұрын

Get over it. That was over 30 years ago. It’s a beautiful tour and you can choose self-guided if you wish.

Well done. Thank you.

Interesting.

It must have been awful there, and the stingy owners did not pay well. If they would have paid well, the cooks would not have quit so often!

@HobbyOrganist

5 жыл бұрын

Not true, the pay was a going rate for that type of servant, they never stayed in one employ that long because they were like today's Pizza Hut, Dominos and Walmart workers- it's easy to find a position elsewhere without college or skills, it was the same for servants, but a good cook or maid could find work almost anywhere back then. Sounds more like MRS Hill was a super nit picker who micro-managed everything and barked orders all day long and people got tired of it and went elsewhere, you can see evidence of this just by the fact there are documents showing her overt, constant involvement in the kitchen etc and her keeping a meticulous diary, you KNOW she wrote down every little thing the help did wrong or that she didn't like how it was done so she could "talk" to them about it later!

@ILoveManCity.

4 жыл бұрын

5 per week is 150 dollars in today's dollar which is a lot for just a cook helper at that time. Usually was 2 dollars.

@lavenderflowersfall280

3 жыл бұрын

Wasn't a treat but probably better than being homeless starving

@horst5511

3 жыл бұрын

frugal lol

This is interesting and genuine history but we don't want to be as proud of it as the English and Europeans are of their domestic staff history. English domestic history is better documented and has more examples and better suited for study. The American domestic model was just copying the English. Americans were always employees never servants except pre Civil War in the south and that was an entirely different relationship.

@brendabrown5996

6 жыл бұрын

NelsonClick my grand mother was a servant in the 1930s in Pennsylvania She ended up marrying her master.

@HobbyOrganist

5 жыл бұрын

"Americans were always employees never servants except pre Civil War in the south" I beg to differ, the US census records I have for my family history research definitely positively used the term "SERVANT" over many years, and one family member John Eden and his wife Muriel had many servants in their Long Island estate house- they were listed in the 1925 NY state census with 4 "servants" who came from Germany aged 20 to 49, in the 1910 census they had 5 "servants" aged 20 to 40 who came from Germany, Ireland, NY and Norway, in the 1930 census they show 6 "servants" aged 19 to 54, from Germany, France and Ireland. I know Muriel still had at least 3 servants and a personal secretary in 1967 because I was there and I remember them.

@shirleyfrancis4515

2 жыл бұрын

Surely they would have used slaves, hence the reason why no records were kept (well maybe)