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| "The exhibition will also include models of housing projects and developments both here and abroad, and two full sized apartments. One of these will be a three-room flat lifted almost intact, furniture and all, from an old-law tenement house recently demolished. The entire length of the three-room flat is twenty-eight and its width is thirteen feet! Only one room has windows on an outside court. A single window in each of the other rooms opens on a dark, airless shaft. In this actual apartment, known as a "dumb-bell" because of its shape, eight persons lived until recently. It will be rebuilt in the Museumand furnished with the furniture of its last occupantsexactly as it was in the slum tenement where for over fifty years it has house unfortunate tenants." |