tenement house
noun
: apartment building
especially
: one meeting minimum standards of sanitation, safety, and comfort and usually located in a city
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Shells from the tavern in the basement of Gladstone’s Land, a tenement house in the Scottish capital, filled in gaps in the building’s brickwork.
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Garritt C. Van Dyk, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025
The Tenement Museum comprises two preserved tenement houses on the Lower East Side.
—Devorah Lev-Tov, AFAR Media, 27 May 2025
Whatever the publishers’ intent, these reporters did cover serious news: strikes, presidential races, unsafe factory conditions, overcrowded tenement houses, the aftermath of hurricanes and earthquakes.
—Susan Faludi, The New York Review of Books, 15 Aug. 2024
The chef’s table inside the kitchen proves the best seat in this 100-year-old tenement house.
—Kasia Dietz, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2024
Like the walls of his tenement house, lined with calendar clippings, the museum that bears his name is born of curiosity, of being awake to the world, and terribly, marvelously interested.
—Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
The museum is spread across two 19th-century-era tenement houses and tells the story of the people who once lived here.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2023
Windows, at least on paper, have been legally required in all New York City bedrooms since at least 1867, as the city began to introduce new regulations for its cramped, often dangerous tenement houses.
—Curbed, 21 Mar. 2023
Construction workers renovating an old tenement house in Lodz, Poland, unearthed a surprising find: an untouched cache of hundreds of Jewish artifacts believed to have been hidden in advance of the Nazi occupation of the city.
—David I. Klein, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2023
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Garritt C. Van Dyk, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025
The Tenement Museum comprises two preserved tenement houses on the Lower East Side.
—Devorah Lev-Tov, AFAR Media, 27 May 2025
Whatever the publishers’ intent, these reporters did cover serious news: strikes, presidential races, unsafe factory conditions, overcrowded tenement houses, the aftermath of hurricanes and earthquakes.
—Susan Faludi, The New York Review of Books, 15 Aug. 2024
The chef’s table inside the kitchen proves the best seat in this 100-year-old tenement house.
—Kasia Dietz, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2024
Like the walls of his tenement house, lined with calendar clippings, the museum that bears his name is born of curiosity, of being awake to the world, and terribly, marvelously interested.
—Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
The museum is spread across two 19th-century-era tenement houses and tells the story of the people who once lived here.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2023
Windows, at least on paper, have been legally required in all New York City bedrooms since at least 1867, as the city began to introduce new regulations for its cramped, often dangerous tenement houses.
—Curbed, 21 Mar. 2023
Construction workers renovating an old tenement house in Lodz, Poland, unearthed a surprising find: an untouched cache of hundreds of Jewish artifacts believed to have been hidden in advance of the Nazi occupation of the city.
—David I. Klein, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2023
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“Tenement house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tenement%20house. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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