Baltimore’s Alley Houses: Homes for Working People since the 1780s (Creating the North American Landscape)

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This pioneering study explains how one among The usa’s important early cities responded to the challenge of housing its poorer citizens. Where and how did the working poor live? How did builders and developers provide relatively priced housing for lower-source of revenue groups all the way through the city’s growth?

Having studied over 3,000 surviving alley houses in Baltimore through extensive land records and census research, Mary Ellen Hayward systematically reconstructs the lives, households, and neighborhoods that once thrived at the city’s narrowest streets.

In the past, these neighborhoods were infrequently known as “dilapidated,” “blighted,” or “poverty stricken.” In Baltimore’s Alley Houses, Hayward reveals the wealthy cultural and ethnic traditions that formed the African-American and immigrant Irish, German, Bohemian, and Polish communities that made their homes at the city’s alley streets.

Featuring multiple hundred historic images, Baltimore’s Alley Houses documents the changing architectural styles of low-source of revenue housing over two centuries and reveals the complex lives of its residents.


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