The horrors of the tenement were perfected in New York at the same time that the very rich were building palaces along Fifth Avenue; public housing for the poor originated in New York, as did government subsidies for middle-class housing.\nA standard in the field since its publication in ...
HOUSING IN NEW YORK CITY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY\nCHAPTER III HOUSING PROGRESS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY\nCHAPTER IV THE BEGINNING OF THE TENEMENT ERA 1800-1850\nCHAPTER V THE PERIOD OF TENEMENT-HOUSE REFORM 1850-1900\nCHAPTER VI THE ENLARGING CONCEPT OF HOUSING\nCHAPTER VII HAS THERE BEEN PROGRESS...
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...
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...
housing by urban migrants led to poorly built homes that inadequately provided for personal hygiene. Immigrant workers in the nineteenth century often lived in cramped tenement housing that regularly lacked basic amenities such as running water, ventilation, and toilets. These conditions were ideal for...
These homes would be refitted for multiple families. Constructed in1824, the plain structure (by today’s standards) at 65 Mott Street would become the firstspecificallymade for multiple tenants —the first tenement building. Within years, these tenements would become the standard style of living,...
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 ...
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 ...
passed and White dithered, Faulkner increased the pressure, first by building a fence along the property line that blocked White’s access from the back door and then letting it be known that he even tried to hire two different Lowell architects to remodel his stable into a 12-unit tenement...
His studio is the former Ft. McPherson military base and the facilities which the studio includes may be a point of envy to other studios who need to create a crew-quarantine situation. Complete with on-base housing consisting of separate homes as well as barrack-style housing, Perry’s 330...