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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.

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From their shape. Narrow in the middle, with wider edges.

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Q: Where did Dumbbell Tenements get there name from?
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