Identifier: americanaunivers15beac (find matches)
Title: The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biograhy, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Beach, Frederick Converse, 1848-1918 Rines, George Edwin, 1860- Scientific American, inc
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American compiling dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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lled, of large size, from mo-tives primarily philanthropic, has been less fre-quent in the United States than in Great Brit-ain. The best known and earliest are the HomeBuildings and Tower Buildings, which wereerected by Alfred T. White in IBrooklyn; thefirst named in 1879. The erection of these build-ings, which have been financially successful fromthe start, was an epoch in the cause of tene-ment reform. It led indirectly to the tenementhouse law of 1879. The most recent model tene-ments are those of the City and SuburbanHomes Company, of New York, of which E.R. L. Gould is president. Great Britain.— The movement for housingreform in Great Britain has had a somewhatdifferent direction from its American counter-part. The evils there have been more largelyslum conditions than those resulting from tallbuildings and unventilated and unlighted rooms.The particular evils of the tall tenement prac-tically exist only in Edinburgh and Glasgow.Consequently English and Scotch effort has been
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