Tenement
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A tenement, also called an apartment building, is a type of building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access. Tenements
High-quality tenements in the Hyndland residential area of Glasgow, built 1898–1910
Tenements in the Morningside area of Edinburgh, featuring atypical decorative lintels, built 1880
Tenements at Park Avenue and 107th Street, New York City, c. 1898–1910
Gladstone's Land is a tenement from 1617 in the Old Town, Edinburgh
Old Law Tenement
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Old Law Tenements are tenements built in New York City after the Tenement House Act of 1879 and before the New York State Tenement House Act of 1901. The 1879 law required that every habitable room ha
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…them." L 1867, ch 908. The New York City Board of Health was empowered to enforce these regulations, but it declined to do so. As a compromise, the "Old Law tenement" became the standard: this had a "dumbbell" shape, with air and light shafts on either side in the center (usually fitted to the shafts in the adjacent…
The airshaft of a dumbbell tenement, c. 1900