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Fig. 5. A Kitchen in the Vandeebilt Tenements, showing cement flooring with 

 unbroken, curved joining of floor and walls ; also the triple-hung windows. 



window may be thrown open. Moreover, each apartment has a strong, 

 spacious iron balcony reached througli the windows. These balconies 

 have no communication with each other and are sufficiently wide to be 

 used as sleeping porches if desired. The arrangement of the rooms is 

 such that no outside widows open on toilets or hallways. All of them 

 are either in kitchens or bedrooms and in a great majority of the apart- 

 ments there is a direct cross draught through the rooms, from the street 

 side to the inner court, or from the courts separating the various units. 

 Both the roofs and the cellars of the Vanderbilt buildings are in a 



Fig. 6. Another View of a Kitchen, showing hood over the gas range. 



