North Side: Phipps Apartments
CAPTION: Phipps Model Tenement.
Rebecca street, Allegheny, October 21, 1908. Four room apartments
rent from $4.25 to $5 a week; three room apartments from $3.25 to $4
per week. Steam heat, gas slot meter, sinks and water closets in each
apartment.
NOTES: From Charities and the Commons: A Journal
of Constructive Philanthropy, 6 February 1909, p. 881.
An aerial photograph of the North Side made
using a kite shows an early view of the Phipps Apartments.
PHOTOGRAPHER:
DATE: October 21, 1908.
HEADING:
#: P8442.
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