Tenement Housing Tenement Floor Plan

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Tenement housing tenement floor plan.

Plan of first floor. Trying to keep a roof over the poor. Gangs of new york house template interior windows apartment plans lower east side slums affordable housing through the looking glass model homes. Various tenement styles can be found all over glasgow s southside.

The symmetrical floor plan of the typical old law tenement included four virtually identical apartments per floor three rooms each with the entry opening to the kitchen containing a washtub alongside a sink opposite a wood burning stove feeding into a flue. Remind group members to also appropriately design the outside of their floor and contribute to figures and items for a street scene. Using our teacher designed teacher tested lesson plans students engage in inquiry and learn to use critical thinking to interpret objects oral histories and primary sources while making history relevant to today. A guide covering shawlands strathbungo and crossmyloof centred around salisbury quadrant crescent and nithsdale.

Each group will begin to plan its construction of a tenement floor 4 apartments per floor and begin work if time allows. Original tenements lacked toilets showers baths and even flowing water a single spigot in the backyard provided all the water for the building s tenants to cook do laundry and clean. A tenement house was a four or five storey row of modules. So let s look at the floor plan in a module.

Plan of upper floors. A cluster of glasgow s celebrated architect alexander greek thomson s tenements can be found in chapter five of our book south glasgow heritage trails. A model tenement house. Two bathrooms were located on the landing in the hallway for common use.

The 25 by 90 strip was split down the middle and cut in two to make apartments for four families. Accessed september 9 2020. With tenement museum resources students become historians. While the average tenement building s exterior specs could easily make you feel claustrophobic most were just 25 feet wide and 100 feet long their interiors were just as jarring.

Plan of first floor. Despite the new law the tenement department in its first heavily documented and illustrated report for 1902 and 1903 noted that some of the conditions found in.