Tenement Museum
Preserved tenement building turned museum, exploring real immigrant family life via guided tours.
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This guide to the Tenement Museum follows Nathalie Gumpertz, an East Prussian immigrant left alone with three daughters after her husband Julius walked out of this building in 1874 without a word. It traces how she turned the apartment's front room into a dressmaking shop to support her family, and what happened nine years later when news arrived from Germany about Julius's father. Listen for how the museum itself sat sealed for decades before historians rediscovered it in 1988.
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