The Decorated Tenement: How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age
The Decorated Tenement: How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age
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Zachary J. Violette
SKU S03891
A reexamination of working-class architecture in late nineteenth-century urban America
Zachary J. Violette reexamines urban America’s tenement buildings borne of the housing reform movement embraced by the American-born elite in the late nineteenth century, centering on the immigrant neighborhoods of New York and Boston. Drawing on research and fieldwork of more than three thousand extant tenement buildings, Violette uses ornament as an entry point to reconsider the role of tenement architects and builders in improving housing for the working poor.
