stair dwellings, but an economic one has not been yet erected in the East.
An economic open stair dwelling is best described by illustrations. On each of these plans those who have studied any other multi-family house will find that there is no other as economically arranged. There are no halls; all the space is used for rooms and closets. And those who are interested in health and morals will observe that this
caused higher wages and many young girls have been tempted away from their homes out in the country and have come to town. They have left all their home influences and have shifted their life to the factory town, coming with merely a hand satchel. Almost half the employees are girls. Where do they live? In improvised hotels. Do these girls like it? No, they surely do not. It has been the experience of everybody that interviews
them by the hundreds, as I have done, that they have sought in vain little housekeeping suites where two or three can club together and live more as they did at home. The plan here illustrated is just what they want. Some will take two rooms and a bath; some three or four.
How about the young men in town; where do they live? They shift for themselves. The great mass of people are boarding. Why? Because it is so expensive to get married. If more economic open stair dwellings were provided there would be a greater tendency to start housekeeping. These
type serves them best. Although a multi-family house, there are no interior stairs or passages; there are no dark parts at all. Each occupant enters his suite of rooms right from the open fresh air.
Now, who wants such a thing except in crowded New York or Chicago? The answer is, everybody wants such a thing who cannot afford to live independently without a boarder or another family, in a private house. Take, for instance, the industrial locality of the Naugatuck Valley in Connecticut. Here, many women have always worked in the rubber industries. Now the demand for labor has
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An economic open stair dwelling is best described by illustrations. On each of these plans those who have studied any other multi-family house will find that there is no other as economically arranged. There are no halls; all the space is used for rooms and closets. And those who are interested in health and morals will observe that this
caused higher wages and many young girls have been tempted away from their homes out in the country and have come to town. They have left all their home influences and have shifted their life to the factory town, coming with merely a hand satchel. Almost half the employees are girls. Where do they live? In improvised hotels. Do these girls like it? No, they surely do not. It has been the experience of everybody that interviews
them by the hundreds, as I have done, that they have sought in vain little housekeeping suites where two or three can club together and live more as they did at home. The plan here illustrated is just what they want. Some will take two rooms and a bath; some three or four.
How about the young men in town; where do they live? They shift for themselves. The great mass of people are boarding. Why? Because it is so expensive to get married. If more economic open stair dwellings were provided there would be a greater tendency to start housekeeping. These
type serves them best. Although a multi-family house, there are no interior stairs or passages; there are no dark parts at all. Each occupant enters his suite of rooms right from the open fresh air.
Now, who wants such a thing except in crowded New York or Chicago? The answer is, everybody wants such a thing who cannot afford to live independently without a boarder or another family, in a private house. Take, for instance, the industrial locality of the Naugatuck Valley in Connecticut. Here, many women have always worked in the rubber industries. Now the demand for labor has
FLOOR PLANS, MULTI-FAMILY HOUSES