Biography of a tenement house in New York City; an architectural history of 97 Orchard St.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: Reference & Research Book News | Date: November 1, 2006 | Copyright information

9781930066571

Biography of a tenement house in New York City; an architectural history of 97 Orchard St.

Dolkart, Andrew S.

The Center for American Places

2006

142 pages

$27.50

Hardcover

NA735

Dolkart (historic preservation, Columbia U.) recounts the life of a building at 97 Orchard Street, a typical tenement house in New York City that later became the site for the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in 1988. He was commissioned by the museum's founder and ...

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