Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850

Winner of the Vernacular Architecture Forum's Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize for 1990

"In this interesting and wide-ranging book, Elizabeth Blackmar investigates the development of New York City's housing market from colonial times to 1850. She discusses public officials, landowners, builders, renters and tenants, and the interplay among and between these groups as the value of land in the city skyrocketed in the early nineteenth century and made renting the only possibility for most New Yorkers."--American Studies International