The law classes all dwellings containing three or more families as tenement houses, but the true tenement house is an institution peculiar to New York.
It is in this section that the "tenement houses," or buildings containing from five to twenty families, are to be found.
The case was one concerning the manufacture of cigars, which by the statute was prohibited in tenement houses on any floor partly occupied for residence purposes.
Later, the prohibition of the manufacture of intoxicating or malt liquors, and the regulation of tenement houses at the orders of the Board of Health.
This led to the regulation or prohibition of certain trades conducted in tenement houses or in sweat shops, and to other matters which we shall find it more convenient to consider under the head of labor legislation.
These women insisted that there never would be quarrels in tenement houses were it not for these two causes.
The careless and apparently malicious destruction of property by tenants is not appreciated by those who touch this question of tenement houses superficially.
Within a year the writer was walking with a group of women, two of whom were housekeepers in tenement houses.
The handsome old residences have become tenement houses, overcrowded, uncared for, occupied by people now at the level of former despised neighbors.
It is not a very large house, astenement houses go, yet the missionary who is with me assures me that he has found as many as thirty families stowed away under its roof.
Doesn't it seem a little strange to an outsider that the Board of Health keep on hand, as it were, block after block of tenement houses, where both landlords and tenants deliberately set the law at defiance, which they can show off at call?
On certain streets on the East Side below 14th Street and in Harlem there are a number of cider "stubes" in the basement of tenement houses.
It was not far off, a few blocks only; in one of a tall row of tenement houses, grim and dismal, confronted by a like row on the other side of the street.
But just think of all that row of tenement houses.
I should think nursing poor folks out of tenement houses might," observed Mrs. Bartholomew.
The dwellings erected are classified as lodging-houses, block dwellings, tenement houses, cottage flats and cottages.
Such is the character of a vast number of tenement houses, especially in the lower part of the city and along the eastern and western border.
There is no record of a single landlord who refused to pocket the great gains from the ownership of tenement houses.
About the year 1887 there developed an agitation in New York City against the horrible conditions in tenement houses, and laws were popularly demanded which would put a stop to them, or at least bring some mitigation.
In the Middle Status joint-tenement houses of adobe-bricks and of stone, in the nature of fortresses, make their appearance.
It consisted in the former condition of personal effects, to which, in the latter, were added possessory rights in joint-tenement houses and in gardens.
The communal character of their joint-tenement houses is of itself strong evidence that the family had not passed out of the syndyasmian form.
The village consisted of seventeen joint-tenement houses and a council-house, arranged around a central open space, and surrounded with a palisade.
The tenement house census shows a total of 3,364 tenement houses in the Greater City, and puts in the possession of the department a body of facts bearing upon the localization of bad housing conditions throughout Pittsburgh.
Subsequently, an ordinance was passed providing for the compulsory registration of tenement houses.
Of the 3,364 tenement houses enumerated by the census, nearly fifty per cent are old dwellings originally planned and constructed to accommodate one family.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tenement houses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
