Can't stand the heat? Move the kitchen out of the house.
This pre-Civil War kitchen house is part of the grounds at the Bentonville Civil War battlefield. It was the kitchen house for the Harper family whose farm turned into the battlefield in 1865.
Many homes of that period had kitchen outbuildings. With large fireplaces to do the cooking, the danger of fire and the heat from the cooking made it best to keep the kitchen away from the house. President Andrew Johnson was born in a kitchen house attic in Raleigh (here). The heat must have been unbearable.
Many old houses in Australia have that too. At my parents home the "old kitchen" was repurposed as a junk shed.
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