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Good question! A lot of it will depend on where your people are living...Frontier housing was very different from east coast housing, which was different from south west housing, etc. People at the time constructed their homes according to local materials and population denisity.

If you let me know where, and an exact date, I'll give you more information The reason an exact date is important is because it will tell things like whether or not people had access to indoor toilets, were washing their hair with lye or soap, whether or not they brushed their teeth, things like that. And whether they were poor or wealthy will also play a big difference in their housing situation - Carnege for instance would be living differently than Irish or Italian immigrants.