The decorated tenement : how immigrant builders and architects transformed the slum in the Gilded Age / Zachary J. Violette.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Violette, Zachary J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• United States.
• Tenement houses--United States--History--19th century.
• Architecture and society--United States--History--19th century.
• Immigrants--Housing--United States--History--19th century.
• Architecture and society.
• Immigrants--Housing.
• Tenement houses.

Genre:

• History.
• Theses.
• dissertations.
• History
• Academic theses.

Physical Description:

279 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]

Summary:

A reexamination of working-class architecture in late nineteenth-century urban America.

Contents:

• Introduction : situating the decorated tenement
• Dens, rookeries, and hovels : the slum landscape and stereotype
• The better sort of tenement : competing notions of improvement and living standards
• Fantastic shapes and unfamiliar profiles : why the tenement façade matters
• Skin builders and plan mills : the tenement business as immigrant enterprise
• Destroying the rookeries : how the tenement was designed and built
• A new style of poverty : understanding working-class taste and material culture
• A heartless irony : cultural conflict and the tenement reform movement
• Epilogue : the afterlife of the decorated tenement.

Notes:

• Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Boston University, 2014) under the title: The decorated tenement : working-class housing in Boston and New York, 1860-1910.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Violette, Zachary J., author. Decorated tenement

ISBN:

• 9781517904128
• 1517904129
• 9781517904135
• 1517904137

OCLC:

1055567864