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Biography of a tenement house in New York City : an architectural history of 97 Orchard Street / by Andrew S. Dolkart.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating HV4046.N6 D65 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dolkart, Andrew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tenement houses--New York (State)--New York--History.
- Tenement houses.
- Architecture--New York (State)--New York--History.
- Architecture.
- Buildings--History--New York (State)--New York.
- Buildings.
- History.
- New York (State).
- New York (State)--New York.
- 97 Orchard Street (New York, N.Y.).
- Local Subjects:
- 97 Orchard Street (New York, N.Y.).
- Physical Description:
- ix, 142 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Fe, N.M : Center for American Places, [2007]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Early Development on the Lower East Side 7
- Chapter 2 The Tenement and Its Inhabitants 13
- Chapter 3 Design and Construction of 97 Orchard Street 22
- Chapter 4 New Tenement Laws and the Changing Character of the Lower East Side and Its Inhabitants 60
- Chapter 5 The Tenement House Act of 1901 and the Tenement House Department 74
- Chapter 6 The Changing Character of the Lower East Side in the Early Twentieth Century 99
- Chapter 7 Creating the Lower East Side Tenement Museum 114.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-136) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Hagen fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 1930066708
- 9781930066700
- OCLC:
- 153581520
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