Baltimore's alley houses
homes for working people since the 1780s
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Author
Publication
2008 - Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland
Language
English
Word Count
76,750 words, Guess
Page Count
307 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100801888344
- ISBN-139780801888342
- Goodreads3971394
- LibraryThing7725863
- Library of Congress Control Number2007050037
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number183179589
- Better World Books9780801888342
- Open LibraryOL18631030M
Classifications
- DDC728/.312097526
- LCCNA7238.B3 H39 2008
- LCCNA7238.B3H39 2008
Description
"This pioneering study explains how one of America's important early cities responded to the challenge of housing its poorer citizens. Where and how did the working poor live? How did builders and developers provide reasonably priced housing for lower-income groups during the city's growth?" "Having studied over 3,000 surviving alley houses in Baltimore through extensive land records and census research, Mary Ellen Hayward systematically reconstructs the lives, households, and neighborhoods that once thrived on the city's narrowest streets. In Baltimore's Alley Houses, Hayward reveals the rich cultural and ethnic traditions that formed the African-American and immigrant Irish, German, Bohemian, and Polish communities that made their homes on the city's alley streets." "Featuring more than one hundred historic images, Baltimore's Alley Houses documents the changing architectural styles of low-income housing over two centuries and reveals the complex lives of its residents."--Jacket.
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Series Statement
- Creating the North American landscape
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