Architecture and Culture
The Meaning of the Lowell Boarding House
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9448603 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard P Horwitz (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 64-64 |
| Publication date | 1973-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0678 • E-ISSN: 1080-6490 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2711557 |
| OpenAlex | W2332239298 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
IN THE 1820S A SMALL AGRICULTURAL SETTLEMENT IN EASTERN MASSAchusetts became Spindle City. The corporation boarding house was an important aspect of that change. Whether defining a literary setting or surmising the operatives' health, residents almost invariably considered the boarding houses. They were an assumed factor, somehow central to the Lowell experience and, therefore, somehow central to our understanding of that experience. My purpose is to learn the meaning of those boarding houses in the early 19th century, their relationship to the Lowellite's world view. Such a study presupposes some knowledge of the structures themselves, what they mean to us.2 Few early buildings or plans remain, but they
Art · Art history · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Sociology · Visual arts · American and British Literature Analysis · Architecture · Architecture, Design, and Social History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 1993 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |