19th Century Tenement Floor Plan
The rear was somewhat narrower and extended to within 5 5 meters of the rear line.
19th century tenement floor plan. A four storey building is typical of 19th c. Narrow buildings typically five to seven stories tall and with a footprint of 25 by 100 feet carved into apartment units of approximately 350 square feet each. House plans 19th century old mansion floor plans classic farmhouse plans farm buildings historic barn styles english country house plans 19th century architectural plans please also visit our architecture page on century past library for many related books. The six common stair flats two per floor are also often identified nowadays as 9 1 to 9 6 in the order they are encountered when rising up the stair on which more below.
1fl or 9 1 is one of six flats entered from the common stair at number 9. A tenement house was a four or five storey row of modules. The first second third fourth and fifth floors were each 14 feet high and the sixth and seventh 9 feet high. Each had a library parlor dining room reception room elevator butler s pantry coat room serving pantry kitchen 4 chambers bedrooms bathroom 2 servant s room and bath 2 wardrobe closets and a linen closet.
The 25 by 90 strip was split down the middle and cut in two to make apartments for four families. Victorian house plans are ornate with towers turrets verandas and multiple rooms for different functions often in expressively worked wood or stone or a combination of both. Thus was born the american tenement. The crowded buildings solved the housing supply problem but often provided abysmal living conditions with little natural light poor ventilation and no indoor plumbing.
The expression tenement house was used to designate a building subdivided to provide cheap rental accommodation which was initially a subdivision of a large house. Our victorian home plans recall the late 19th century victorian era of house building which was named for queen victoria of england. The floor plan of 667 madison avenue shows two spacious luxury residences per floor. This building had a sub cellar and basement with seven floors above the basement in the portion next to the street.
Tenements were now designed as modules each of which occupied one of these lots edge to edge except for a ten foot yard in back. So let s look at the floor plan in a module.