I thought I knew the story of tenements: that it was greedy landlords exploiting vulnerable immigrants and making them live in really horrifying conditions. But for most immigrants, tenements were ...

In 1900, while living in this tenement, they had a son, Manuel Nunes Cotta, Jr. He would be their only child. As with many immigrants who rented their residence, the Cotta family moved a number of ...

The Tenement Museum in New York City offers visitors a unique opportunity to step back in time and experience what life was like for immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Immigrants learned that to survive and prosper ... bonds that could in effect relocate a European village to a single tenement are evident today in many of Chicago's neighborhoods.

For nearly 50 years a large number of the city’s Irish lived here in the various tenements multiple-family homes ... that formed the largest immigrant community in this locale. A majority belonged to ...