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In the last third of the nineteenth century a new housing form was quietly being developed.  In 1869 the Stuyvesant, considered New York’s first apartment house, was built on East Eighteenth Street. The building was financed by the developer Rutherfurd Stuyvesant and designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect to graduate from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Each man had lived in Paris, and each understood the economic and social potential of this Parisian housing form. But the Stuyvesant was at best a limited success. In spite of Hunt’s inviting facade, the living place was awkwardly arranged.  Those who could afford them were quite content to remain in the more sumptuous, single-family homes, leaving the Stuyvesant to young married couple and bachelors.

 

The fundamental problem with the Stuyvesant and the other early apartment buildings that quickly followed, in the late 1870’s and early 1880’s, was that they were confined to the typical New York building lot. That lot was a rectangular area 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep - a shape perfectly suited for a row house. The lot could also accommodate a rectangular tenement, though it could not yield the square, well-lighted, and logically arranged rooms that great apartment buildings require. But even with the awkward interior configurations of the early apartment buildings, the idea caught on. It met the needs of a large and growing population that wanted something better than tenements but could not afford or did not want row houses.

 

So while the city’s newly emerging social leadership commissioned their mansions, apartment houses and hotels began to sprout on multiple lots, thus breaking the initial space constraints. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, large apartment houses began dotting the developed portions of New York City, and by the opening decades of the twentieth century, spacious buildings, such as the Dakota and the Ansonia finally transcended the tight confinement of row house building lots. From there it was only a small step to building luxury apartment houses on the newly created Park Avenue, right next to the fashionable Fifth Avenue shopping area.

Why did the idea of living in an apartment become popular in the late 1880’s?

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Dogs make very _______ pets. They’ll always stay by your side

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The number of people traveling by air has been growing _______.

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My grandfather had been looking for his newspaper for almost half an hour until finally he found it lying on his bed.

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The boss told the workers that he would try his best to continue running the company and promised not to _______ any employees during the economic recession.

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House prices ________ greatly from one area to the next.

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Jane: "It's going to rain."

                   Mary: "___________"

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Often the bottom of a pan or skillet becomes black when it is placed among a fire .

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“Finish your work. And then you can go home.”

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Farm animals have been regardless by nearly all societies as a valuable economic resource

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He luckily inherited a lucrative business from his father

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“What are you going to do with such a long list of books, Dane?” asked Sarah

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Neither Tom nor his brothers ______ willing to help their mother with the housework.

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Dr. Jones suggested that final examinations should be discontinued, an innovation I heartily support.