The Dumbbell Tenement
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Tenements were meant for 6-8 people, but a lot of times tenements would be filled with more than 60 people.
tenements
They were filled with waste water.
One bathroom per floor.
cheap housing units created when cities became packed with people during the industrial revolution. They were called dumbbell tenements because the design of the building, which looked like a dumbbell, had many housing units sharing a corridor.
Dumbbell tenements.
Dumbbell tenements.
The State of New York outlawed the dumbbell shaped tenement buildings in 1901. The New York State Tenement House Act of 1901 banned the poorly lit and poorly ventilated buildings.
The Dumbbell Tenement
Louis Sullivan developed the Dumbbell Tenements in 1885.
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Cities were diverse, but separated by social classes. Wealthy urbanites settled away from immigrants and industry. Many immigrants worked in sweatshops and lived in crowded, unsanitary dumbbell tenements.
there was no water in many tenements.
there was no water in many tenements.
Tenements can be described as poor people.