The Decorated Tenement: How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age

Winner of the International Society of Place, Landscape, and Culture Fred B. Kniffen Award

A reexamination of working-class architecture in late nineteenth-century urban America

As the multifamily building type that often symbolized urban squalor, tenements are familiar but poorly understood, frequently recognized only in terms of the housing reform movement embraced by the American-born elite in the late nineteenth century. This book reexamines urban America’s tenement buildings of this peri...