Early central heating in America didn’t inevitably heat all the rooms in the house. Which rooms in a house were most typically heated by this method?

a) east-facing rooms

b) bedrooms

c) rooms located the farthest away from the kitchen

d) the rooms on the first floor

Answer:

d) the rooms on the first floor. Another common plan was to heat via the furnace those rooms that faced north, and use fireplaces to heat the rest of the rooms in a house.