Laurel Homes Historic District

Laurel Homes Historic District

One of the buildings at Laurel Homes
Location Roughly bounded by Liberty and John Sts., Ezzard Charles Dr., and Linn St., Cincinnati, Ohio
Coordinates 39°6′41″N 84°31′27″W / 39.11139°N 84.52417°W / 39.11139; -84.52417Coordinates: 39°6′41″N 84°31′27″W / 39.11139°N 84.52417°W / 39.11139; -84.52417
Area 34 acres (14 ha)
Built 1933
Architect Frederick W. Garber, et al.
NRHP Reference # 87000690[1]
Added to NRHP May 19, 1987

Laurel Homes Historic District is a registered historic district in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on May 19, 1987. It contained 29 contributing buildings.

All but three of the historic low-income public housing projects was razed between 2000-02 to make way for new condominiums.

History

One of the remaining buildings

Laurel Homes was established in 1938 with 1303 units of low income housing. An adjacent property of 1015 units, Lincoln Court, opened in 1942 to black families only.[2] Apartments at Laurel Homes were leased to both white and to lesser degree, black, families, making it nominally one of the first integrated housing projects in the United States.[3]

Laurel Homes was the second largest Public Works Administration public housing project in the country.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Federal Writers' Project (1943). Cincinnati, a Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors. p. 132. Retrieved 2013-05-04.
  3. ↑ "Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority". Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
  4. ↑ Architecture in Cincinnati: an illustrated history of designing and building an American city. Ohio University Press in association with the Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati. 2006. p. 207. ISBN 0821417002.

External links

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog: Laurel Homes Building B

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog: Laurel Homes Historic District


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