Item 2271: Draper Corporation tenements, Dutcher Street, 1919

Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B2271. September 1919. Image depicts a two-story wood-shingled house with attic. The house features a pitched roof and four bay windows on the front. Two entryways are connected by walkways to the sidewalk and street, indicating this was a two-family building. Shrubs and plants surround the house. A set of back steps is in view on one side of the house. 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. 25.25 x 20.25 cm.