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Saturday, July 25, 2020

The Bronx Tenement House

Mary's oldest brother found them a home with three rooms. It was glorious to Mary after living for ten months in the backroom of a miserly shopkeeper. 

How she described this building and their new apartment was so like the Tenement Museum House on 97th Orchard Street in New York City! So, as an author, I was able to match up her detailed memories to the pictures in this book:




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