The decorated tenement : how immigrant builders and architects transformed the slum in the Gilded Age / Zachary J. Violette.
- Format:
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- Author/Creator:
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- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
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- Genre:
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- 9781517904128
- 1517904129
- 9781517904135
- 1517904137
- OCLC:
- 1055567864
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