The Bloomingdale Insane Asylum housed 177 people, Leake and Watts Orphan House housed 136, and the House of Mercy, a home for “fallen women” was home to 12 people, making these three institutions responsible for housing nearly 20% of the ED1 population. Most of the hotels listed no boarde...
“The effect of the presence of this persistent race upon the more impressible Americans should be considered. Already, in California, the white farm laborer who is forced into competition with them, adopts their nomadic habits, and has no home in the family he serves, but is a “blanket m...
Nothing exists of the original hall (demolished in 1812), so from the perspective of a chronological history, this building is disappointing. This current structure (1842) was New York’s original custom house, processing the flow of imports and exports into one of the busiest ports in the wo...
The shops on the corner were to be the last piece of the overall development of the 35 -acre Burnham Road parcel that had begun as an innovative, low-cost veterans housing plan, only to be abandoned as collateral damage to an over-hyped rackets and bribery scandal in another city. After ...
Gloucester housing stock (and hotels) included luxury homes with bathrooms and water closets as well as modest solutions. Rough outhouses were common, too. Can you spot the outhouses downtown and in East Gloucester? (Reminder about the photographs: you can pinch and zoom to enlarge and right ...
Since nursing's origins, records kept by the Ladies Benevolent Society (LBS) demonstrated these central dilemmas of caring for the sick at home. Figure. Visiting nurse (with wide-brimmed hat) in tenement home. Along with these three critical questions, the LBS also struggled with family ...
county seat, in the fall of 1854, put an end to rivalry. Within the year following all the houses in Franklin were moved to the new county seat, including the church, which still stands on Third street, between E and D streets. In 1875 it was sold and converted into two tenement ...
The mix of population and economic dis-investment, called “red-lining”, had a devastating effect on the housing stock. Even as the old tenement buildings deteriorated, more and more newcomers crammed into them. The population grew after World War II to a maximum of 210,000 in 1950s, a ...
From 1909, the caption reads “Tenement dwellers dropping clothes from fire escape for Italians on East side.”Library of Congress Missing Tenements There’s something moving about finding and identifying the homes of the victims. Most of these people had no solid roots, no property they owned....
A Tenement you've always dreamed of. Fabulous river view. Dead handy for The Toon £1,000,000 ono Needs some work, big styley The subsoil on the sloping side of the hill is damp and most foul, the brickwork of the buildings is ruinous, the timber rotten; and an appearance of gener...