Housing for Rich and Poor in Victorian and Edwardian London

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Housing for the Middle and Upper Classes

• The Albany
• Carlyle Mansions, Chelsea ("The Writers Block")
• Houses along St. Andrew's Square, Surbiton
• Homes of Artists and Sculptors
• Urban domestic architecture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Bloomsbury
• Eclectic urbanism in upper-middle-class housing (1), South Kensington
• Eclectic urbanism in upper-middle-class housing (2), South Kensington
• London Roof Tops, near Sloane Square
• Curving brick block of flats, South Kensington
• Dutch Revival rooflines, heavy corbels, and lots of bay windows

Slums and Working-Class Housing

• Market Court, Kensington
• The Oxford Arms, Warwick Lane

Model Housing for the Working Poor

• Peabody Square, Blackfriars
• Peabody estate, Lawrence Street, Chelsea

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