Super tiny and had a button to ring certain other rooms in the house as the home had these already to call for staff.
If you pushed a spot just right, the wall opened to a hidden room. Also upstairs in the living room was a wall straight out of an old mystery novel. Not sure, but the lounge area was also glassed off above it so one could look down into the court like a gallery." Her dad made the giant room regulation designed for racquetball years later.
"At the beginning of WWII, before Pearl Harbor, my friend’s paranoid WWI vet grandfather had dug out the space over fear of Japanese (or German) invasion. Another staircase behind a rack of dusty bottles led two stories down to our giant play area beneath this." A decoy as the actual wine cellar for the home was under the kitchen…. Halfway down the stairs was a wine cellar. "The stairs to it were hidden behind a closet off of the abandoned servants' quarters. "As a kid back in the Mesozoic Era (I'm old), my best friend and I used to play in a converted racquetball court and lounge under the old West Coast mansion her family had lived in since its construction."