The dumbbell shape allowed for air shafts between tenements.
Floor plan of a dumbbell tenement.
Unfortunately the 1879 law did not alleviate the overcrowding and filthy conditions of the tenements as many of the older style of tenements were still in use.
Shafts located on one or both sides of the apartment provide air and a little light in the rooms that do not face the front or rear of the building.
This is the source of the module floor plan below.
Studies among the tenements of new york.
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Also called a railroad flat.
The winner was james e.
Flagg the new york tenement house evil and its cure.
They taper in the center like the handle of a dumbbell.
Scribner s magazine july 1894 pp.
Also called a railroad flat.
The belknap press of harvard univ.
The symmetrical floor plan of the typical old law tenement included four virtually identical apartments per floor three rooms each with the entry opening to the kitchen containing a washtub alongside a sink opposite a wood burning stove feeding into a flue.
A quick definition of a railroad apartment.
Sam bass warner jr.
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Each dumbbell reached six stories and housed 300 people in its 84 rooms.
A tenement is a type of building shared by multiple dwellings typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access on the british isles notably common in scotland in the medieval old town in edinburgh tenements were developed with each apartment treated as a separate house built on top of each other such as gladstone s land.
The floor plan of each floor resembles the outline of a dumbbell.
Hence its resemblance in plan to a dumbbell.
Ware and the dumbbell tenement this nickname comes from these buildings unusually shaped floor plan.
Riis the battle with the slum.
In railroad apartments the only means of egress from one room is into another room except in the case of the bathroom which can connect to the side of a room and if there.
Two bathrooms were located on the landing in the hallway for common use.
A railroad apartment is a unit with aligned rooms that lead directly into one another without a hallway according to brown harris stevens broker elizabeth lind johnson.
As a result of this law dumbbell tenements were constructed so called because of the shape of their perimeter.
A five to seven story multiple dwelling unit in urban areas characterized by a long narrow plan with an indentation on each side forming a shaft for light and air.
