Biography of a Tenement House in New York City
An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street
«A fascinating, engagingly written study that illuminates the history of a building as well as the social and legislative changes that informed its structural evolution." - Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History
"Illustrate[s] the dramatic social and economic disparities of the Gilded Age and Victorian era, and the grounding of architecture and building in larger systems of economics and production. Perhaps most importantly . . . it help[s] bridge the gap between the study of the everyday environment and that of high culture." - Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians»
"I trace my ancestry back to the Mayflower," writes Andrew S. Dolkart. "Not to the legendary ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620, but to the more prosaic tenement on the southeast corner of East Broadway and Clinton Street named the Mayflower, where my father was born in 1914 to Russian-Jewish immigrants.
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"I trace my ancestry back to the Mayflower," writes Andrew S. Dolkart. "Not to the legendary ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620, but to the more prosaic tenement on the southeast corner of East Broadway and Clinton Street named the Mayflower, where my father was born in 1914 to Russian-Jewish immigrants."
For Dolkart, his father's experience of being raised in a tenement became a metaphor for the life that was afforded countless immigrant children growing up in Lower Manhattan during the past century. In this revised edition of his classic book, Dolkart 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. The author documents, analyzes, and interprets the architectural and social history of this building at 97 Orchard Street, beginning 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 edition includes new research on the basement storefronts (specifically the Schneider saloon and the kosher butcher), the backyard privies and their reconstruction, and the new Irish Moore apartment. Biography of a Tenement House in New York City 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 American urban life.
Distributed for the Center for American Places at ColumbiaCollege Chicago
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Virginia Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 160
- ISBN
- 9780813953243
- Utgave
- 3. utg.
- Utgivelsesår
- 2025
- Format
- 23 x 18 cm
Om forfatteren
Andrew S. Dolkart, Professor of Historic Preservation at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, is the author of award-winning
The Row House Reborn: Architecture and Neighborhoods in New York City, 1908–1929 and
Morningside Heights: A History of Its Architecture and Development.
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«A fascinating, engagingly written study that illuminates the history of a building as well as the social and legislative changes that informed its structural evolution." - Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History
"Illustrate[s] the dramatic social and economic disparities of the Gilded Age and Victorian era, and the grounding of architecture and building in larger systems of economics and production. Perhaps most importantly . . . it help[s] bridge the gap between the study of the everyday environment and that of high culture." - Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians»
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