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Biography of a Tenement House in New York City : An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street by Andrew S. Dolkart (2017, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherUniversity of Virginia Press

ISBN-100813939968

ISBN-139780813939964

eBay Product ID (ePID)18038736790

Product Key Features

Number of Pages184 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameBiography of a Tenement House in New York City : an Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street

Publication Year2017

SubjectUnited States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Buildings / Residential, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa), History / General, Sociology / Urban

FeaturesNew Edition

TypeTextbook

AuthorAndrew S. Dolkart

Subject AreaTravel, Architecture, Social Science, History

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight7.8 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Edition Number2

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsIllustrate[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, A rich recapitulation of housing for New York's poor and the heritage of the Lower East Side.-- New York Times, 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., A must read for anyone interested in the history of vernacular domestic architecture in the United States. -- Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, 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., 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

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal974.71

Edition DescriptionNew Edition

Synopsis"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 Columbia College Chicago, 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. It 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., "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