Category: History - American
Philadelphia is called the City of Homes with good reason. Come into her ample confines from any point you please and you see row upon row of little two-story, stone-stepped houses of red brick, perhaps with a grass-plot front or rear, shade trees in a singular variety, and a...
Philadelphia is called the City of Homes with good reason. Come into her ample confines from any point you please and you see row upon row of little two-story, stone-stepped hou...
2. Part 2“You cannot deal with the people and their houses separately. The principle on which the whole work rests, is that the inhabitants and their surroundings must be improved togeth...
3. Part 3From year to year the list of properties owned, or managed by agency, has lengthened. The Casa Ravello, owned by Dr. George Woodward and operated by the Association, was opened...
4. Part 4A group of new houses in the district known as Richmond, an entire block of model dwellings for workingmen, represent a distinct departure from the policy to which the Associati...
5. Part 5Here is a young man with a moral inheritance that the friendly rent-collector knows by heart. He has a job slicing bacon with a meat-packing concern. Today is a holiday, he expl...
6. Part 6In the case of the property at 948–952 North Third Street, from six privy-wells in the court, which extended partly under the kitchens, one hundred barrels of filth in each case...
7. Part 7MISS EDITH F. BIDDLE JOHN IRWIN BRIGHT ARTHUR C. EMLEN MISS HANNAH FOX NATHAN HAYWARD EDGAR B. HOWARD MISS MARY H. INGHAM DR. H. R. M. LANDIS MISS ESTHER LLOYD STACY B. LLOYD DR...
8. Part 8═══════════════════════╤═══════════════════════╤═══════════════════════ Year │ Value of Property │ Rents Collected ───────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼──────────────...