What Has Been Proposed?

Reconstruction is defined as the act or process of depicting, by means of new construction, the form, features, and detailing of a non-surviving site, landscape, building, structure, or object for the purpose of replicating its appearance at a specific period of time and in its historic location.

Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties

Historical Accounts of the Tenements

There is one style of flats having from two to four rooms each, which rent from six to nine dollars a month. Of these, there are now six buildings, each containing twelve families, one building containing twenty four families, two containing thirty six each, and one containing forty-eight families….By accommodating many families upon a small tract of land, men are able to reduce their living expenses to a minimum, while all have the advantages of living upon improved streets and in close proximity to parks and gardens.