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Biography of a Tenement House in New York City: An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street

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Availability:In StockContributor:Andrew S. DolkartPublish date:7/16/2025Pages:152
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Virginia PressISBN-13:9780813953243ISBN-10:813953243UPC:9780813953243Book Category:Architecture, HistoryBook Subcategory:Buildings, History, United StatesBook Topic:Residential, State & LocalSize:8.60 x 6.80 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCJFG8VZ8Z

Biography of a Tenement House in New York City: An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street

"I trace my ancestry back to the Mayflower," writes Andrew S. Dolkart. "Not to the legendary ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620, but to the more prosaic tenement on the southeast corner of East Broadway and Clinton Street named the Mayflower, where my father was born in 1914 to Russian-Jewish immigrants."

For Dolkart, his father's experience of being raised in ...

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Virginia PressISBN-13:9780813953243ISBN-10:813953243UPC:9780813953243Book Category:Architecture, HistoryBook Subcategory:Buildings, History, United StatesBook Topic:Residential, State & LocalSize:8.60 x 6.80 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCJFG8VZ8Z

Andrew S. Dolkart, Professor of Historic Preservation at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, is the author of award-winning The Row House Reborn: Architecture and Neighborhoods in New York City, 1908-1929 and Morningside Heights: A History of Its Architecture and Development.


Publisher: University of Virginia Press

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