Zachary Violette Book Talk on “The Decorated Tenement: How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age”
Jun 11, 2019
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2019-06-11 18:30:00
2019-06-11 20:00:00
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Zachary Violette Book Talk on “The Decorated Tenement: How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age”
In “The Decorated Tenement: How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age,” historian Zachary Violette counters the standard narrative of crowded tenements and crusading urban reformers to reconstruct the role of tenement architects and builders in improving housing for the working poor. Drawing on research and fieldwork that surveyed more than 3,000 extant tenement buildings in New York and Boston, Violette uses ornament as an entry point of his study,
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