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[[File:Railroad style house example.jpg|thumb|A railroad style house]] |
[[File:Railroad style house example.jpg|thumb|A railroad style house]] |
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A '''railroad apartment''' (or '''railroad flat''') is an apartment with a series of rooms |
A '''railroad apartment''' (or '''railroad flat''') is an apartment is an apartment with a series of rooms connecting to each other in a line.<ref name="Sennett">Sennett, Richard. ''The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities''. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992. {{ISBN|0-393-30878-2}}.</ref> The name comes from the layout's similarity to that of a typical (mid-20th century or earlier) passenger train car.<ref>Cassidy, Frances Gomes. ''Dictionary of American Regional English''. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985. {{ISBN|0-674-00884-7}}.</ref> |
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This style is most common in [[New York City]], [[San Francisco]], and their surrounding areas. Railroad apartments are common in [[tenement]] or even modern apartment buildings, and are sometimes found in subdivided [[brownstone|brownstones]]. |
This style is most common in [[New York City]], [[San Francisco]], and their surrounding areas. Railroad apartments are common in [[tenement]] or even modern apartment buildings, and are sometimes found in subdivided [[brownstone|brownstones]]. |
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Revision as of 13:43, 12 September 2018
A railroad apartment (or railroad flat) is an apartment is an apartment with a series of rooms connecting to each other in a line.[1] The name comes from the layout's similarity to that of a typical (mid-20th century or earlier) passenger train car.[2]
This style is most common in New York City, San Francisco, and their surrounding areas. Railroad apartments are common in tenement or even modern apartment buildings, and are sometimes found in subdivided brownstones.
It differs from a shotgun house, which has a series of rooms connected directly in series but with no hallway.[1] Rooms in a railroad apartment may also connect directly, such as with panel doors that connect the living room to the dining room.[1]
Railroad apartments first made an appearance in New York City in the mid-19th century, and were designed to provide a solution to urban overcrowding.[3] Many early railroad apartments were extremely narrow, and most buildings were five or six stories high.[3] Few early buildings had internal sanitation, and bathrooms emptied raw sewage into the back yard.[3] In some cases, one family would take up residence in each room, with the hallway providing communal space.[1]
See also
- Enfilade (architecture) – similar design in grand European architecture of the Baroque period
- List of house types
References
- ^ a b c d Sennett, Richard. The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992. ISBN 0-393-30878-2.
- ^ Cassidy, Frances Gomes. Dictionary of American Regional English. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985. ISBN 0-674-00884-7.
- ^ a b c Eisner, Simon; Gallion, Arthur; and Eisner, Stanley. The Urban Pattern. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1993. ISBN 0-471-28428-9
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