Draper Corporation tenements, 86 Dutcher Street, 1919

Negative no.B2274. September 1919. Image depicts a two-story wood-shingled house with attic. The house has two small open porches with recessed doors at the front. The entryways are connected by walkways to the sidewalk and tree-lined street (all the trees have wire netting around them for a distance of about four feet off the ground). Shutters are at each window. A set of back steps is in view at one side of the house and another house is partially in view on the other side. 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 2274 for print of this negative.