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.
Laurel Homes Historic District | |
 One of the buildings at Laurel Homes | |
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| Location | Roughly bounded by Liberty and John Sts., Ezzard Charles Dr., and Linn St., Cincinnati, Ohio |
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| Coordinates | 39°6′41″N 84°31′27″W / 39.11139°N 84.52417°W |
| Area | 34 acres (14 ha) |
| Built | 1933 |
| Architect | Frederick W. Garber, et al. |
| NRHP reference No. | 87000690[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 19, 1987 |
All but three of the historic low-income public housing projects was razed between 2000–02 to make way for new condominiums.
History
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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
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edit- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Federal Writers' Project (1943). Cincinnati, a Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors. p. 132. ISBN 9781623760519. Retrieved May 4, 2013.
- ^ "Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority". Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal. Retrieved December 25, 2013.
- ^ 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
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Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog: Laurel Homes Building B [1]
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog: Laurel Homes Historic District [2]