O! Multitudes! I: Three Centuries of Domestic Architecture on the Lower East Side

 
 

Starting in what is now Chinatown, this comprehensive architectural tour explores housing on the Lower East Side from the federal, pre-Civil War era to the mid-nineteenth century.

For the past century and a half, immigrants have crowded the streets and tenements of the Lower East Side, and established cultural, social, and religious institutions. On this tour, housing will be explored.

  • Starting in what is now Chinatown, this comprehensive architectural tour explores housing on the Lower East Side from the Federal, pre-Civil War era to the mid-nineteenth century.  

  • See examples of late 18th and early 19th century housing.
  • Walk past social, cultural and religious institutions that have served the community for almost two centuries.
  • Stroll down a middle class neighborhood that predates the Civil War.
  • Learn about the sites of the notorious Five Points, Gotham Court and Mulberry Bend slums, and the street described by social activist Jacob Riis. Hear evocative interpretations of these neighborhoods.

 

Lori Weissman