Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis"' New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any American city, but it has also led the nation in innovation and reform. The horrors of the tenement were perfected in New York at the same time...
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 Rise of Tenement Housing In the first half of the 19th century, many of the more affluent residents of New York’s Lower East Side neighborhood began to move further north, leaving their low-rise masonry row houses behind. At the same time, more and more immigrants began to flow into...
December 19, 2024Buildings of New EnglandLeave a comment It is not always the architect-designed, high-style buildings that give a place character. The North End is a neighborhood almost entirely built of working-class tenement housing, but its density, immigrant history, and vernacular, make ...
Along with The Marshall House, there are two other notable Mary Marshall landmarks within a short walk. Her double-tenement house sits behind the hotel on Oglethorpe Square, and the iconic Marshall Row lies on Oglethorpe Street across from Colonial Park Cemetery. ...
No public or private body existed to further assist in the housing needs of this particular group. As a result, they were living in various illegal, overcrowded and unhealthy stacks and tenement rooms. The FCC then sponsored eight representatives from their member churches to set up a charitable...
Tenement houses in New York City: A) had higher mortality rates than among the general population. B) usually had two to three families in each building. C) were urban, yet their courtyards offered children a sense of nature. D) were clean. ...
Naturism began as a self-help reform movement in reaction to the debilitating aspects of industrialization and urbanization during the late nineteenth century. At a time when medicine could neither explain nor cure disease, many people believed that crowded and unsanitary cities, tenement housing, rest...
Having learned the trade, he set up his own estate agency in 1931, selling property, developing housing estates, and scouting for multiples like M&S, BHS and Littlewoods. Towards the end of his extraordinary career, Chippindale estimated that he had worked with 55 local authorities on over 70...
“Our Lady's Street” in Latin, referring to the nearby St. Mary's Basilica. In the Middle Ages, Mariacka Street was home to shoemaking workshops. Gothic tenement houses were built along the street from the late 15th century onward. Mariacka Street is special because of its well-preserved ...