Hayward, Mary Ellen.

Baltimore's alley houses : homes for working people since the 1780s / Mary Ellen Hayward.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

xii, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm.

Creating the North American landscape

"This pioneering study explains how one of America'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 reasonably priced housing for lower-income groups during 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 on the city's narrowest streets. In Baltimore's Alley Houses, Hayward reveals the rich cultural and ethnic traditions that formed the African-American and immigrant Irish, German, Bohemian, and Polish communities that made their homes on the city's alley streets." "Featuring more than one hundred historic images, Baltimore's Alley Houses documents the changing architectural styles of low-income housing over two centuries and reveals the complex lives of its residents."--Jacket.

9780801888342 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0801888344 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Row houses Maryland Baltimore.
Architecture, Domestic Maryland Baltimore.
Working class Dwellings Maryland Baltimore.
Alleys Maryland Baltimore.
Habitations en bandes Maryland Baltimore.
Travailleurs Habitations Maryland Baltimore.
Alleys
Architecture, Domestic
Buildings
Row houses
Working class Dwellings
Arbeiterwohnung
Reihenhaus
Arbeiter
Wohnsiedlung
Reihenhaus Baltimore Geschichte.
Baltimore (Md.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Maryland Baltimore
Baltimore, Md.
Balitmore Architektur Geschichte.

Creating the North American landscape.

Location: Library main 259851
Call No.: BIB 190771
Status: Available