Biography of a Tenement House in New York City by Andrew S. D... - 9780813953236

Biography of a Tenement House in New York CityAn Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street\nAuthor(s): Andrew S. Dolkart\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Virginia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Virginia Press\nISBN-13: 9780813953236, 978-0813953236\nSynopsis\nIn this groundbreaking volume, previously available in editions first distributed and then published by UVA Press, Andrew Dolkart presents 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. He 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 began to change, and concluding as the building became a museum offering a lasting tribute to the legacy of immigrants and their children, who were part of the transformation of.