2 days ago
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
A Family Spent $500,000 on Built-In Cabinets for Those Costco Runs
When Gilded Age architect Addison Hutton designed a grand, circa-1870s mansion for the family of a prominent attorney in a bucolic town near Philadelphia, nobody was worried about where to put the extra rolls of paper towels.
Such things weren't invented yet. Neither were those wholesale-club stores that sell bulk-packaged pallets of everything from canned tuna to Ziploc bags to meet the needs of families with, say, three young boys and a golden retriever.
