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Definition of Tenement district
1. Noun. A residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenement District
Literary usage of Tenement district
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Community Life and Civic Problems by Howard Copeland. Hill (1922)
"A tenement district Congested districts like this disfigure almost every city in
the United States. Built of wood and oftentimes in a tumbledown condition, ..."
2. Community Life and Civic Problems by Howard Copeland Hill (1922)
"A tenement district Congested districts like this disfigure almost every city in
the United States. Built of wood and oftentimes in a tumbledown condition, ..."
3. Our Day (1895)
"Sixteenth—That more drinking-fountains and lavatories be built in the tenement
district. Seventeenth—That the electric light system be extended throughout ..."
4. Journal and proceedings by New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and Apportionment (1892)
"Cherry street, from Roosevelt street to Catharine street—The street passes through
a crowded tenement district. The present pavement is specification trap ..."
5. San Francisco's Great Disaster: A Full Account of the Recent Terrible by Sydney Tyler, Ralph Stockman Tarr (1906)
"Here are the dwellings of the poor, corresponding to the tenement district of
New York, except that the poor of San Francisco are housed not in tall ..."
6. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1894)
"It is needless to say how hateful is the social life of a tenement district in
a great city, or rather how much to be deplored is the lack of such life. ..."
7. Modern Civic Art: Or, The City Made Beautiful by Charles Mulford Robinson (1903)
"It does not create a new tenement district; and thus the reference to such an
area is to be understood as applying simply to the section of the city in ..."
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