Baltimore's Alley Houses: Homes for Working People Since the 1780s

by Mary Ellen Hayward and Tiffany Clarke Harrison

Book Overview

Winner, 2009 Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize. Vernacular Architecture Forum

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801888344
• ISBN13: 9780801888342
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 10.1"