[sotd] December 10, 2002 [Lower East Side Tenement Museum]
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Site of the Day for Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Feeling a bit cramped for space? Contemplating renovations?
The List presents a website from the Public Broadcasting System station in
New York, a remarkable online exhibition of the Tenement Museum on 97
Orchard Street in Manhattan. Some Gentle Members may consider cancelling
the builders after a tour of this fascinating presentation.
"The Tenement Museum located the perfect building in which to reveal the
history of tenement life on the Lower East Side [of New York City]. . .
.[S]ealed from change since 1935, it stands as a monument to America's
urban poor, to the architects and owners who designed and built their
housing, and to the reformers who fought to improve it. . . 97 Orchard
Street is as authentic as a tenement can get, right down to the impossibly
cramped but still useable water closet in the hall next to the exhibition
space. . . "
"Over ten thousand people lived at 97 Orchard Street between the years 1870
and 1915. . . Click through the thirteen layers of wallpaper that were
peeled off of just one wall. Click on the different floorboards to find
objects that were discovered in the renovated tenement building. . . Visit
two apartments as they appeared at 97 Orchard St. in the 1870's and 1930's,
using navigable QuickTime VR panoramas." - from the website
The site includes a riveting historical account of the development and
changes in tenement laws over the years, while the other sections with more
graphical elements include the Urban Log Cabin, Excavation and Virtual
Reality.
Prowl to the website for a gripping presentation of one aspect of the
immigrant experience at:
http://www.thirteen.org/tenement/
A.M. Holm
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