The Last Tenement: A Lost Neighborhood's Surviving Building

The Last Tenement building in Boston's West End is a remnant of a working-class neighborhood erased by urban renewal. Local historian Jim Vrabel and former West End resident Jim Campano explain the history of the building, the destruction of the neighborhood and the lasting effect it had on the people that were displaced.



Sources
City of Boston Archives - Boston Redevelopment Authority Photographs

The West End Museum Archives - Charles Frani Collection

West End Project Report - Boston Housing Authority

The Last Tenement by The Bostonian Society

Grieving for a Lost Home by Marc Fried

Boston's West End: Urban Obsolescence in Mid-Twentieth Century America by Daniel Abramson

Music
Morning in Solace by Moments