Moses invented the first diaper-changing rooms in American public buildings

Evidence

One other thing, he said. The bathhouses were going to have at least one innovation never included in any public or private building in America: diaper-changing rooms. He had designed them himself, he said. They would be divided into cubicles and each cubicle would contain only a diaper-disposal basket, a washbasin, a mirror and a shelf for a mother to lay her baby on. And the shelf shouldn’t be table-height, he said. He had watched mothers changing diapers and higher shelves would make it easier. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 977

The bathhouses were going to have at least one innovation never included in any public or private building in America: diaper-changing rooms. He had designed them himself, he said. They would be divided into cubicles and each cubicle would contain only a diaper-disposal basket, a washbasin, a mirror and a shelf for a mother to lay her baby on. And the shelf shouldn’t be table-height, he said. He had watched mothers changing diapers and higher shelves would make it easier. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 977

Categorization

• CANDY: Delightful trivia — the supremely arrogant power broker personally designed the nation’s first diaper-changing stations, having watched mothers struggle.
• QUESTION: Is it verifiable that diaper-changing rooms in public buildings were genuinely his invention? A good claim to fact-check.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 977