Flagg the new york tenement house evil and its cure.
Tenement housing floor plan.
Plan of upper floors new york public library digital collections.
This is the source of the module floor plan below.
The tenements of glasgow have provided accommodation for millions of citizens over the past 150 years.
Plan of first floor.
Riis the battle with the slum.
The scope ranges from the built environment to social conditions from natural history to scientific discovery and the amount of material available to research a cornerstone issue such as tenement housing is vast.
A model tenement house.
The symmetrical floor plan of the typical old law tenement included four virtually identical apartments per floor three rooms each with the entry opening to the kitchen containing a washtub alongside a sink opposite a wood burning stove feeding into a flue.
Two bathrooms were located on the landing in the hallway for common use.
Scribner s magazine july 1894 pp.
Researching new york s tenement housing history.
Studies among the tenements of new york.
In working class tenements the entrance to the close the passage leading to the stairs was a simple opening.
The quality of this form of housing varied across the city and was signalled by the character of the front entrance.
Built in 1863 the building is an example of an old law tenement as defined by the tenement house act of 1867 and was home over the years for some 7 000 working class immigrants.
Riis how the other half lives.
The new york public library holds multitudes of materials on our city s history.
Sam bass warner jr.
The term tenement is both a legal term codified in city regulations and a word commonly used to refer to a certain type of multi family housing.
As officially defined in the tenement house law of 1867 a tenement is any building housing more than three families each living and cooking independently.
Accessed september 9 2020.
The belknap press of harvard univ.