Biography of a tenement house in New York City : an architectural history of 97 Orchard Street / by Andrew S. Dolkart.

Main entry:

Dolkart, Andrew.

Title & Author:

Biography of a tenement house in New York City : an architectural history of 97 Orchard Street / by Andrew S. Dolkart.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

ix, 142 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Series:

Center books on American places

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Early development on the Lower East Side -- The tenement and its inhabitants -- Design and construction of 97 Ochard Street -- New tenement laws and the changing character of the Lower East Side and its inhabitants -- The Tenement House Act of 1901 and the tenement house department -- The changing character of the Lower East Side in the early twentieth century -- Creating the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.

Summary:

"For Andrew S. Dolkart, the experience of being raised in a tenement became a metaphor for the life that was afforded countless thousands of other immigrant children growing up in Lower Manhattan during the past century and more. He presents for us a precise and informative biography of a typical tenement house in New York City that became, in 1988, the site for the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Dolkart documents, analyzes, and interprets the architectural and social history of this building at 97 Orchard Street, starting in the 1860s when it was erected, moving on to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the neighborhood started to change, and concluding in the present day as the building is reincarnated as the museum." "This book is a lasting tribute to the legacy of immigrants and their children, who were part of the transformation of New York City and the fabric of everyday life in urban America."--BOOK JACKET.

Resources:
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9781930066571 (hbk.)
1930066570 (hbk.)
9781930066700
1930066708

Subject:

Tenement houses New York (State) New York.
Buildings.
Tenement houses.
New York (N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc.
New York (State) New York.

Added entries:

Center books on American places.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249531
Call No.: BIB 179122
Status: Available

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