Main entry:

Violette, Zachary J., author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

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

Description:

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

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.
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.

Summary:

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

ISBN:

9781517904128 hardcover alkaline paper
1517904129 hardcover alkaline paper
9781517904135 paperback alkaline paper
1517904137 paperback alkaline paper

Subject:

Tenement houses United States History 19th century.
Architecture and society United States History 19th century.
Immigrants Housing United States History 19th century.
Architecture et société États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture and society.
Immigrants Housing.
Tenement houses.
United States.

Form/genre:

Theses.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 305454
Call No.: BIB 251290
Status: Available