tenement

Examples of tenement in the following topics:

• Tenements and Overcrowding

  • Such tenements (or "walk-ups") were particularly prevalent in New York, where in 1865, a report stated that 500,000 people lived in unhealthy tenements, whereas in Boston in 1845, fewer than a quarter of workers were housed in tenements.
  • The following is an example of Riis's description of the New York City tenements:
  • It is the lullaby of tenement-house babes.
  • The Tenement House Act of 1867 was amended by the Tenement House Act of 1879, also known as the "Old Law," which required lot coverage of no more than 65 percent.
  • Assess the hazards of tenement living in the late nineteenth century

• American Painting: The Ashcan School

  • Critics of the time did not always appreciate their choice of subjects, which included alleys, tenements, slum dwellers, and in the case of John French Sloan, taverns frequented by the working class .
  • In contrast to the Impressionists' emphasis on light, their Realist works were generally darker in tone, capturing harsher moments of life and often portraying such subjects as prostitutes, drunks, butchered pigs, overflowing tenements, boxing matches, and wrestlers.

• The Muckrakers

  • How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890), by photojournalist Jacob Riis, documented the squalid living conditions of New York City slums during the 1880's .
  • How the Other Half Lives detailed the brutal living conditions not only of New York's slums, but also its tenements.
  • The public reaction to these accounts helped fuel the tearing down of New York's worst tenements and sweatshops, as well as the city's reformation of its schools, and lead to a decade of vast improvements regarding public conditions in the Lower East Side.

• Industrial Cities

  • The book's protagonist immigrates from Eastern Europe to Chicago in search of employment and eventual prosperity, but instead finds dangerous assembly lines, unsanitary water, and cramped tenement buildings.

• The White City, Chicago, and the World Columbian Exposition

  • The buildings were clad in white stucco, which, in comparison to the tenements of Chicago, seemed illuminated.
  • The white buildings constructed for the exposition, in comparison to the Chicago tenements, appeared to gleam.

• Social Criticism

  • His most famous work, How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) documented squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s.
  • With the help of humanitarian Lawrence Veiller, Riis endorsed the implementation of "model tenements" in New York.

• Painting and Sculpture

  • These artists were not only depicting the rich and promising Fifth Avenue socialites, but the lives of immigrants and working class, including alleys, tenements, and slums.

• The Rise of Realism

  • At least one critic of the time did not like the Ashcan School's choice of subjects, which included alleys, tenements, slum dwellers, and taverns frequented by the working class.

• The Know-Nothings and Democrats

  • Most of the new arrivals were poor Catholic peasants or laborers from Ireland and Germany who crowded into the tenements of large cities.