Item 2268: Draper Corporation tenements, Dutcher & Northrop streets, 1919

Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B2268. September 1919. Image depicts a two-story wood-shingled house with front porch and steps to front door. Corner view shows side of house with a set of back steps leading to a grassy yard. Other homes are in the background. These houses were 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. 25.25 x 20.25 cm.