With 7- to 13-room apartments renting from $2,000 to $5,000 a year and featuring tiled bathrooms and extensive closets, the Wyoming was a step forward from the first generation of multiple dwellings.
Other modifications included custom built shelves, cabinets and bureaus and extensive closets for the Cohens and their teenage children.
In contrast, a 2006 show at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of the extensive wardrobe of Nan Kempner resembled an inventory of her closets.
In fact, before her death in 2005, one of those women, Nan Kempner, whose extensive wardrobe was the recent subject of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, bequeathed Memorial Sloan-Kettering the entire contents of her closets.
The apartments at Reed Row at 2101 Champlain St . NWin Washington are organized around a central core that includes the open kitchen, a bathroom, a laundry closet and extensive built-in cabinets for storage.
By the 1930s, extensive use of the water closet meant that the amount of night soil being delivered to Carrington Moss had dropped significantly.
Ms. Karp didn't settle for the plethora of closets already in place but created suites of closets to store as well as display her extensive collection of clothing and costume jewelry.
Less extensive wardrobes of earlier eras went with the smaller closets typical of many older homes.
"Saturday Night Live" writer Mike O'Brien has so far spent time in a closet doing interviews with Kristen Wiig, Hota Kotb, Jason Sudeikis and perhaps most memorably for extensive lip-locking, Patricia Clarkson.
First came extensive renovations to add a fully equipped kitchen to Child's new one-bedroom apartment, along with extra closets, bookcases, and higher-than-normal countertops to accommodate her more than six-foot frame.
