Outhouses were still common when this carriage house was built, but McFaddin domestic employees had indoor plumbing. Having modern, above-average housing for their employees added to the McFaddins' social standing and was also attractive to prospective employees.

"As to a bathroom, it is most essential that proper facilities in this particular should be assured the domestics of any well-ordered household... Nothing is more objectionable in a house than slatternly, sloven, unkempt servants, and nothing reflects so unfavorably upon the character of a mistress." - Barbara Caye, "Our Servants' Quarters," American Homes and Gardens, March 1914

The yardman, Percy Andrews, was living in the carriage house in 1939 when Mamie Ward wrote in her diary: "Plumber here fixing Percy's bathtub and floor."