Item 2273: Draper Corporation tenements, 6 Lake Street, 1919

Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B2273. September 1919. Image depicts a two-story wood-shingled house with attic. The house has two arched entryways with recessed doors at the front. The entryways are connected by walkways to the sidewalk and street. Shutters are at each window and two bay windows are on the first floor. The house is flanked by two tall trees and other shrubs grow along the foundation. 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.