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Featuring more than one hundred historic images, Baltimore's Alley Houses documents the changing architectural styles of low-income housing over two centuries and reveals the complex lives of its residents.

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Engagingly written and well researched. -- Diane Scharper Baltimore Sun 2008 Throughout Baltimore's Alley Houses, the writing betrays the author's affection for Baltimore and its old, often-decayed houses... In the book's epilogue, Hayward writes that '[t]he memories are worth saving. They cannot be replaced' (265). Her book is itself an important document for maintenance of those memories and of the material culture from which they are derived. -- Jeremy Kargon Maryland Historical Magazine & MHS Publications 2009 A well-illustrated architectural and social history. -- Laura B. Driemeyer Buildings and Landscapes 2010

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Small Streets and Small Houses
1. Antebellum Free Blacks
2. The Irish
3. German Baltimore
4. The Bohemians
5. African-American Neighborhoods of 1880s Baltimore
6. The Reformers
Epilogue
Notes
Index

Baltimores Alley Houses Homes for Working People

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 26 December 2008
      ISBN-13 9780801888342
      978-0801888342
      ISBN-10 0801888344
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      Architecture: residential City and town planning: architectural aspects

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Featuring more than one hundred historic images, Baltimore's Alley Houses documents the changing architectural styles of low-income housing over two centuries and reveals the complex lives of its residents.

      Trade Review
      Engagingly written and well researched. -- Diane Scharper Baltimore Sun 2008 Throughout Baltimore's Alley Houses, the writing betrays the author's affection for Baltimore and its old, often-decayed houses... In the book's epilogue, Hayward writes that '[t]he memories are worth saving. They cannot be replaced' (265). Her book is itself an important document for maintenance of those memories and of the material culture from which they are derived. -- Jeremy Kargon Maryland Historical Magazine & MHS Publications 2009 A well-illustrated architectural and social history. -- Laura B. Driemeyer Buildings and Landscapes 2010

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Introduction: Small Streets and Small Houses
      1. Antebellum Free Blacks
      2. The Irish
      3. German Baltimore
      4. The Bohemians
      5. African-American Neighborhoods of 1880s Baltimore
      6. The Reformers
      Epilogue
      Notes
      Index

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