by Elizabeth Collins Cromley (Author)

Twentieth-century New York is now famous as the city of "cliff dwellers," but in the second half of the nineteenth century, middle-class apartments in Manhattan were a new--and somewhat suspect--architectural form. Alone Together presents a history of the "invention" of New York apartment houses.

Author Biography

Elizabeth Collins Cromley is Professor of Architectural History at Northeastern University and the coauthor of Invitation to Vernacular Architecture.