Dumbbell tenements

Esquema

Getty AAT: Objects Facet

Jerarquía

Built Environment (Hierarchy Name) > Single Built Works (Hierarchy Name) > single built works (Built Environment) > <single built works by specific type> > <single built works by function> > residential structures > dwellings > multiple dwellings > apartment houses > tenement houses

Descripción

Apartment houses offering an improvement over standard long, narrow tenements by including air and light shafts between adjacent buildings resulting in characteristic dumbbell-shaped plans; common in New York City between 1879 and 1901, after which their construction was banned.

URI original del concepto

http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300005733

Otros términos

  • casas de vecindad dumbbell [es]
  • dumbbell tenement [en]
  • dumbbell tenement [nl]
  • tenements, dumbbell [en]
  • casa de vecindad dumbbell [es]