Alone Together: A History of New York's Early Apartments

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Cornell University Press, 1990 - Architecture - 252 pages

Twentieth-century New York is now famous as the city of "cliff dwellers," but in the second half of the nineteenth century, middle-class apartments in Manhattan were a new--and somewhat suspect--architectural form. Alone Together presents a history of the "invention" of New York apartment houses.

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Making Do
11
Good and Bad Dwellings
32
The First Generation of New York Apartments
62
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Elizabeth Collins Cromley is Professor of Architectural History at Northeastern University and the coauthor of Invitation to Vernacular Architecture.

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