cheap housing units created when cities became packed with people during the industrial revolution. They were called dumbbell tenements because the design of the building, which looked like a dumbbell, had many housing units sharing a corridor.
Tenements were usually found in large industrialized cities, providing living quarters for large influxes of immigrants and factory workers
The tenements would get crowded and a disease would form and spread.
the cause of the problems and the cause of the people living there
Urban slums were the neighborhoods consisting of tenements that arose in U.S. cities. These slums were often impoverished, polluted, and unsanitary.
cheap housing units created when cities became packed with people during the industrial revolution. They were called dumbbell tenements because the design of the building, which looked like a dumbbell, had many housing units sharing a corridor.
Dumbbell tenements.
Dumbbell tenements.
The State of New York outlawed the dumbbell shaped tenement buildings in 1901. The New York State Tenement House Act of 1901 banned the poorly lit and poorly ventilated buildings.
there was no water in many tenements.
Cities were diverse, but separated by social classes. Wealthy urbanites settled away from immigrants and industry. Many immigrants worked in sweatshops and lived in crowded, unsanitary dumbbell tenements.
Louis Sullivan developed the Dumbbell Tenements in 1885.
Tenements were meant for 6-8 people, but a lot of times tenements would be filled with more than 60 people.
There are many many more bathrooms. The White House has many more offices in it than bedrooms. There are dozens of bathrooms for the many offices, as well as bathrooms for the bedrooms.
35 bathrooms
Windsorcastle has 122 bathrooms
There are 52 Royal and guest bathrooms