Speculation in Apartment Houses Immigrants and Construction

Tenements Apartment Living Explosion of Apartment Houses Speculation in Apartment Houses Immigrants and Construction Apartment Architects Apartment Houses with Numbers An Original Renting Plan Keeping Them in the City Modern Apartment Houses Buildings That Stand Out Full Text (PDF)		These apartment houses are the next generation of speculative construction after the row houses. And many of the speculative builders of the row houses were immigrants or the children of immigrants. Lots of Irish immigrants got involved in speculative row-house construction because for speculative construction you didn't need social connections, and all you needed was a little bit of money for a down payment to get going on your project. And apartment buildings are the next wave of this. Once speculative row-house construction stops, speculative apartment-house construction becomes the new wave. And these, too, attract immigrants and the children of immigrants, but by the early twentieth century when the huge waves of apartment houses are being built, most of the builders are either Italian or Jewish immigrants or their children. And at this time, so were many of the architects who were designing these buildings.	Click thumbnails to enlarge images.