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Sale of Tenements - Colonial Boston Sale of 1761

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Sale of Tenements - Colonial Boston Sale of 1761
State(s): Massachusetts
Years: 1761

Colonial Boston sale of tenements. Front and back shown. So early! A tenement is a type of building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access. They are common on the British Isles, particularly in Scotland. In the medieval Old Town, in Edinburgh, tenements were developed with each apartment treated as a separate house, built on top of each other (such as Gladstone's Land). Over hundreds of years, custom grew to become law concerning maintenance and repairs, as first formally discussed in Stair's 1681 writings on Scots property law. In Scotland, these are now governed by the Tenements Act, which replaced the old Law of the Tenement and created a new system of common ownership and procedures concerning repairs and maintenance of tenements. Tenements with one or two room flats provided popular rented accommodation for workers, but in some inner-city areas, overcrowding and maintenance problems led to shanty towns, which have been cleared and redeveloped. In more affluent areas, tenement flats form spacious privately owned houses, some with up to six bedrooms, which continue to be desirable properties. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenement

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Condition: Excellent
Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.
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