Dolkart, Andrew.

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

1st ed.

Santa Fe, New Mexico : The Center for American Places, ©2006.

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

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"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.

9781930066571 (hbk.)
1930066570 (hbk.)
9781930066700
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Tenement houses New York (State) New York.
Buildings.
Tenement houses.
New York (N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc.
New York (State) New York.

Center books on American places.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 249531
Cote: BIB 179122
Statut: Disponible