5/25 Glasgow Tenement House

This is an apartment which was occupied by a woman and her mother for over 50 years from 1911 to 1965.  Built in the late 1800s, it was not changed over those years and did not even have electricity installed until 1961.  Thousands of these apartment buildings were built as solutions to housing for the lower-middle class, with three or four tiny rooms.

(Construction materials here are not relevant.)

 

The kitchen had a built-in bed.  Incredibly, the never-married daughter and her mother slept in this bed together!  Must have been the warmest room, and the one bedroom was rented out to a boarder.  There was another bed in the parlor, but it was never used. 

Both the kitchen range and all fireplaces burned coal, which was deliver twice a week.

 This was the parlor.

And the bed in the corner. 

This was the piano in the entrance hall.

 The bedroom rented to the boarder.

Interesting toilet!