She was active in the arts, in animal welfare and in the design of model tenements.

These are two of the city's few remaining model tenements.

Critics favored legislation and regulations to improve tenement conditions, but the model tenement was a progressive step.

The site was chosen for the city's first model tenements.

The buildings were low-rent model tenements with an average rental price of $11 a room.

In their time, they were considered model tenements for middle-income families, with windows in every room, toilets and running water.

He frequently wrote about housing reform and designed several model tenements.

The board resolved a controversy over the landmarking of two model tenement "estates" by sensibly reducing its scope.

Others, like the model tenements at the southwest corner of 42d Street and 10th Avenue, just barely hang together, ignored by landmark activists.

The movement for model tenements matured in the 1890's after decades of proposed reforms failed to change the way most poor people were housed.