The woman who lived more than half her life without plumbing designed her home with multiple luxurious bathrooms and amenities that were ahead of their time.
Madam C.J. Walker drove her own expensive cars, started her own haircare company, employed thousands of women and built her own mansion with every high-tech amenity.
"It was a story in the New York Times at the time," said historic architect Stephen Tilly. "This house was making a splash - her entrance on Millionaire's Row."It's a far stretch from where she came. Walker began her life in a shack. And so Walker -- born Sarah Breedlove -- whose siblings and parents had been enslaved, put down roots in Indiana and then New York, making a fortune marketing her own hair ointment."Like most women in America, she had no indoor plumbing, didn't bathe often and washed her hair even less," Bundles said. "She was losing her hair because of dandruff and bad scalp infections.
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