>>8077441Penthouse apartments are a relative novelty in themselves. The "houses" right under the roofs of european bourgeois apartment of the 19th c. can't really be called "penthouses". In these, they were indeed the worse part, hot in summer, cold in winter, badly isolated in general. The best apartment would be the second floor ones. The top ones would often be occupied by servants of the lower floors, in mansardes.
