Draper Corporation tenements, 6 Peace Street, 1919

Negative no.B2272. September 1919. Image depicts a two-story wood clapboard house with attic. Decorative framework outlines each gable. The house has four entry doors at front, indicating multiple families were in residence. The entryways are connected by walkways to the sidewalk and street. Shutters are at each window and climbing vines surround the entryways. A hydrangea bush and climbing rose on trellis enhance the grounds. This house was built for Draper Corporation employees. Tenements in this context simply means employee housing and not the "slum" housing usually thought of in reference to the word tenements. Draper Company founders, brothers George and Ebenezer, believed that good houses made good workers and created a model self-contained company town with one of the best collections of architecturally significant double houses in the country. 8 x 10 in. See Collection 6612 P, Box 12, Folder 2, Item 2272 for print of this negative.