Do you think the restoration was a success? I'm not sure their space would have been quite so organized and "designed." I imagine Mr. Moore made little pay and was faced with many hardships, including the death of his young daughter from a form of malnutrition.
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The parlor painted in Sky-blue calcimine
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A wide parlor-view and mantle piece
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The parlor writing area
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...looks like the kitchen got fairly good light!
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Another area of the kitchen
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The Tenement Museum always leaves an "area of record," leaving an area of the tenement as they originally found it. Here you can see layers of peeling wallpaper and paint.
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Artifacts found during the restorations
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An original lantern still hangs
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The apartment before any restoration began
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A view of the damage that's occurred overtime. There was no electricity.
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The original banister dating from 1863
For more photos, go to the Tenement Museum's Flickr page
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