Description: Dated to 1939, this photograph shows a sign erected at Poindexter Village during its construction. Opened in 1940 on the Near East Side of Columbus (bound by I-71 to the west, Nelson Road to the east, Broad Street to the south, and I-670 to the north), Poindexter Village was the first public housing development in Ohio, and the second in the country, as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Designed by architect Howard Dwight Smith, Poindexter Village consisted of 35 two-story brick townhouses, housing 333 units with monthly rent costs ranging from $18.28 to $19.25. The United States Housing Authority funded its construction and the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority managed the development thereafter. Poindexter Village was one of 700 public housing developments built to provide affordable housing to working Americans, especially Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers, recovering from the Great Migration and the Great Depression. The development was named after the first African American elected to City Council and the Columbus School Board, Reverend James Poindexter, a local barber by trade and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Since the early 20th century, the Near East Side has been one of the most important African American communities in Columbus, with families displaced by the Civil War as its early inhabitants. Poindexter Village replaced the Blackberry Patch, a tightly-knit African American community on the Near East Side of Columbus, and became the heart of African American culture and community on the Near East Side, producing prominent artists, social justice activists, medical professionals, academics and politicians. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1990_Vol1p149
Subjects: Poindexter Village; Columbus (Ohio); African Americans--History; Public housing; Works Progress Administration; New Deal, 1933-1939
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dating June 16, 1939, this photograph shows the demolition of two structures on the south half of parcel number 175 to start building the construction offices to be used by the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority, construction advisor, and the architect during the construction of Poindexter Village. Opened in 1940 on the Near East Side of Columbus (bound by I-71 to the west, Nelson Road to the east, Broad Street to the south, and I-670 to the north), Poindexter Village was the first public housing development in Ohio, and the second in the country, as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Designed by architect Howard Dwight Smith, Poindexter Village consisted of 35 two-story brick townhouses, housing 333 units with monthly rent costs ranging from $18.28 to $19.25. The United States Housing Authority funded its construction and the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority managed the development thereafter. Poindexter Village was one of 700 public housing developments built to provide affordable housing to working Americans, especially Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers, recovering from the Great Migration and the Great Depression. The development was named after the first African American elected to City Council and the Columbus School Board, Reverend James Poindexter, a local barber by trade and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Since the early 20th century, the Near East Side has been one of the most important African American communities in Columbus, with families displaced by the Civil War as its early inhabitants. Poindexter Village replaced the Blackberry Patch, a tightly-knit African American community on the Near East Side of Columbus, and became the heart of African American culture and community on the Near East Side, producing prominent artists, social justice activists, medical professionals, academics and politicians. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1990_Vol1p004_01
Subjects: Poindexter Village; Columbus (Ohio); African Americans--History; Public housing; Works Progress Administration; New Deal, 1933-1939
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1939-1942, this photograph shows a man installing an awning over a porch on one of the housing structures at Poindexter Village in Columbus, Ohio. Opened in 1940 on the Near East Side of Columbus (bound by I-71 to the west, Nelson Road to the east, Broad Street to the south, and I-670 to the north), Poindexter Village was the first public housing development in Ohio, and the second in the country, as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Designed by architect Howard Dwight Smith, Poindexter Village consisted of 35 two-story brick townhouses, housing 333 units with monthly rent costs ranging from $18.28 to $19.25. The United States Housing Authority funded its construction and the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority managed the development thereafter. Poindexter Village was one of 700 public housing developments built to provide affordable housing to working Americans, especially Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers, recovering from the Great Migration and the Great Depression. The development was named after the first African American elected to City Council and the Columbus School Board, Reverend James Poindexter, a local barber by trade and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Since the early 20th century, the Near East Side has been one of the most important African American communities in Columbus, with families displaced by the Civil War as its early inhabitants. Poindexter Village replaced the Blackberry Patch, a tightly-knit African American community on the Near East Side of Columbus, and became the heart of African American culture and community on the Near East Side, producing prominent artists, social justice activists, medical professionals, academics and politicians. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1990_Vol1p047
Subjects: Poindexter Village; Columbus (Ohio); African Americans--History; Public housing; Works Progress Administration; New Deal, 1933-1939
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated August 17, 1939, this photograph shows a young man laying brick for the first floor of one of the townhouses at Poindexter Village. Opened in 1940 on the Near East Side of Columbus (bound by I-71 to the west, Nelson Road to the east, Broad Street to the south, and I-670 to the north), Poindexter Village was the first public housing development in Ohio, and the second in the country, as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Designed by architect Howard Dwight Smith, Poindexter Village consisted of 35 two-story brick townhouses, housing 333 units with monthly rent costs ranging from $18.28 to $19.25. The United States Housing Authority funded its construction and the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority managed the development thereafter. Poindexter Village was one of 700 public housing developments built to provide affordable housing to working Americans, especially Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers, recovering from the Great Migration and the Great Depression. The development was named after the first African American elected to City Council and the Columbus School Board, Reverend James Poindexter, a local barber by trade and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Since the early 20th century, the Near East Side has been one of the most important African American communities in Columbus, with families displaced by the Civil War as its early inhabitants. Poindexter Village replaced the Blackberry Patch, a tightly-knit African American community on the Near East Side of Columbus, and became the heart of African American culture and community on the Near East Side, producing prominent artists, social justice activists, medical professionals, academics and politicians. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1990_Vol1p059_01
Subjects: Poindexter Village; Columbus (Ohio); African Americans--History; Public housing; Works Progress Administration; New Deal, 1933-1939
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated August 18, 1939, this photograph shows a man laying bricks for the first floor of one of the townhouse buildings at Poindexter Village. Opened in 1940 on the Near East Side of Columbus (bound by I-71 to the west, Nelson Road to the east, Broad Street to the south, and I-670 to the north), Poindexter Village was the first public housing development in Ohio, and the second in the country, as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Designed by architect Howard Dwight Smith, Poindexter Village consisted of 35 two-story brick townhouses, housing 333 units with monthly rent costs ranging from $18.28 to $19.25. The United States Housing Authority funded its construction and the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority managed the development thereafter. Poindexter Village was one of 700 public housing developments built to provide affordable housing to working Americans, especially Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers, recovering from the Great Migration and the Great Depression. The development was named after the first African American elected to City Council and the Columbus School Board, Reverend James Poindexter, a local barber by trade and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Since the early 20th century, the Near East Side has been one of the most important African American communities in Columbus, with families displaced by the Civil War as its early inhabitants. Poindexter Village replaced the Blackberry Patch, a tightly-knit African American community on the Near East Side of Columbus, and became the heart of African American culture and community on the Near East Side, producing prominent artists, social justice activists, medical professionals, academics and politicians. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1990_Vol1p059_02
Subjects: Poindexter Village; Columbus (Ohio); African Americans--History; Public housing; Works Progress Administration; New Deal, 1933-1939
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated September 12, 1939, this photograph shows workers laying cement for one of the housing structures at Poindexter Village in Columbus, Ohio. Opened in 1940 on the Near East Side of Columbus (bound by I-71 to the west, Nelson Road to the east, Broad Street to the south, and I-670 to the north), Poindexter Village was the first public housing development in Ohio, and the second in the country, as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Designed by architect Howard Dwight Smith, Poindexter Village consisted of 35 two-story brick townhouses, housing 333 units with monthly rent costs ranging from $18.28 to $19.25. The United States Housing Authority funded its construction and the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority managed the development thereafter. Poindexter Village was one of 700 public housing developments built to provide affordable housing to working Americans, especially Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers, recovering from the Great Migration and the Great Depression. The development was named after the first African American elected to City Council and the Columbus School Board, Reverend James Poindexter, a local barber by trade and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Since the early 20th century, the Near East Side has been one of the most important African American communities in Columbus, with families displaced by the Civil War as its early inhabitants. Poindexter Village replaced the Blackberry Patch, a tightly-knit African American community on the Near East Side of Columbus, and became the heart of African American culture and community on the Near East Side, producing prominent artists, social justice activists, medical professionals, academics and politicians. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1990_Vol2p101
Subjects: Poindexter Village; Columbus (Ohio); African Americans--History; Public housing; Works Progress Administration; New Deal, 1933-1939
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated September 19, 1939, this photograph shows a general view of the construction of Poindexter Village, looking south, from building number 1. Opened in 1940 on the Near East Side of Columbus (bound by I-71 to the west, Nelson Road to the east, Broad Street to the south, and I-670 to the north), Poindexter Village was the first public housing development in Ohio, and the second in the country, as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Designed by architect Howard Dwight Smith, Poindexter Village consisted of 35 two-story brick townhouses, housing 333 units with monthly rent costs ranging from $18.28 to $19.25. The United States Housing Authority funded its construction and the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority managed the development thereafter. Poindexter Village was one of 700 public housing developments built to provide affordable housing to working Americans, especially Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers, recovering from the Great Migration and the Great Depression. The development was named after the first African American elected to City Council and the Columbus School Board, Reverend James Poindexter, a local barber by trade and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Since the early 20th century, the Near East Side has been one of the most important African American communities in Columbus, with families displaced by the Civil War as its early inhabitants. Poindexter Village replaced the Blackberry Patch, a tightly-knit African American community on the Near East Side of Columbus, and became the heart of African American culture and community on the Near East Side, producing prominent artists, social justice activists, medical professionals, academics and politicians. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1990_Vol1p107
Subjects: Poindexter Village; Columbus (Ohio); African Americans--History; Public housing; Works Progress Administration; New Deal, 1933-1939
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated September 22, 1939, this photograph shows construction workers preparing to pour concrete for the main floor slab of the administration building at Poindexter Village. Opened in 1940 on the Near East Side of Columbus (bound by I-71 to the west, Nelson Road to the east, Broad Street to the south, and I-670 to the north), Poindexter Village was the first public housing development in Ohio, and the second in the country, as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Designed by architect Howard Dwight Smith, Poindexter Village consisted of 35 two-story brick townhouses, housing 333 units with monthly rent costs ranging from $18.28 to $19.25. The United States Housing Authority funded its construction and the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority managed the development thereafter. Poindexter Village was one of 700 public housing developments built to provide affordable housing to working Americans, especially Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers, recovering from the Great Migration and the Great Depression. The development was named after the first African American elected to City Council and the Columbus School Board, Reverend James Poindexter, a local barber by trade and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Since the early 20th century, the Near East Side has been one of the most important African American communities in Columbus, with families displaced by the Civil War as its early inhabitants. Poindexter Village replaced the Blackberry Patch, a tightly-knit African American community on the Near East Side of Columbus, and became the heart of African American culture and community on the Near East Side, producing prominent artists, social justice activists, medical professionals, academics and politicians. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1990_Vol1p113
Subjects: Poindexter Village; Columbus (Ohio); African Americans--History; Public housing; Works Progress Administration; New Deal, 1933-1939
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated May 13, 1940, this photograph shows two men carrying a metal fixture into one of the the units at Poindexter Village in Columbus, Ohio. Opened in 1940 on the Near East Side of Columbus (bound by I-71 to the west, Nelson Road to the east, Broad Street to the south, and I-670 to the north), Poindexter Village was the first public housing development in Ohio, and the second in the country, as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Designed by architect Howard Dwight Smith, Poindexter Village consisted of 35 two-story brick townhouses, housing 333 units with monthly rent costs ranging from $18.28 to $19.25. The United States Housing Authority funded its construction and the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority managed the development thereafter. Poindexter Village was one of 700 public housing developments built to provide affordable housing to working Americans, especially Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers, recovering from the Great Migration and the Great Depression. The development was named after the first African American elected to City Council and the Columbus School Board, Reverend James Poindexter, a local barber by trade and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Since the early 20th century, the Near East Side has been one of the most important African American communities in Columbus, with families displaced by the Civil War as its early inhabitants. Poindexter Village replaced the Blackberry Patch, a tightly-knit African American community on the Near East Side of Columbus, and became the heart of African American culture and community on the Near East Side, producing prominent artists, social justice activists, medical professionals, academics and politicians. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1990_Vol2p131
Subjects: Poindexter Village; Columbus (Ohio); African Americans--History; Public housing; Works Progress Administration; New Deal, 1933-1939
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated to 1939, this photograph shows workers laying concrete for the foundation of one of the buildings at Poindexter Village in Columbus, Ohio. Opened in 1940 on the Near East Side of Columbus (bound by I-71 to the west, Nelson Road to the east, Broad Street to the south, and I-670 to the north), Poindexter Village was the first public housing development in Ohio, and the second in the country, as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Designed by architect Howard Dwight Smith, Poindexter Village consisted of 35 two-story brick townhouses, housing 333 units with monthly rent costs ranging from $18.28 to $19.25. The United States Housing Authority funded its construction and the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority managed the development thereafter. Poindexter Village was one of 700 public housing developments built to provide affordable housing to working Americans, especially Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers, recovering from the Great Migration and the Great Depression. The development was named after the first African American elected to City Council and the Columbus School Board, Reverend James Poindexter, a local barber by trade and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Since the early 20th century, the Near East Side has been one of the most important African American communities in Columbus, with families displaced by the Civil War as its early inhabitants. Poindexter Village replaced the Blackberry Patch, a tightly-knit African American community on the Near East Side of Columbus, and became the heart of African American culture and community on the Near East Side, producing prominent artists, social justice activists, medical professionals, academics and politicians. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1990_Vol1p135
Subjects: Poindexter Village; Columbus (Ohio); African Americans--History; Public housing; Works Progress Administration; New Deal, 1933-1939
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated May 27, 1940, this photograph shows a sign erected at Poindexter Village in Columbus, Ohio, during construction. Opened in 1940 on the Near East Side of Columbus (bound by I-71 to the west, Nelson Road to the east, Broad Street to the south, and I-670 to the north), Poindexter Village was the first public housing development in Ohio, and the second in the country, as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Designed by architect Howard Dwight Smith, Poindexter Village consisted of 35 two-story brick townhouses, housing 333 units with monthly rent costs ranging from $18.28 to $19.25. The United States Housing Authority funded its construction and the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority managed the development thereafter. Poindexter Village was one of 700 public housing developments built to provide affordable housing to working Americans, especially Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers, recovering from the Great Migration and the Great Depression. The development was named after the first African American elected to City Council and the Columbus School Board, Reverend James Poindexter, a local barber by trade and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Since the early 20th century, the Near East Side has been one of the most important African American communities in Columbus, with families displaced by the Civil War as its early inhabitants. Poindexter Village replaced the Blackberry Patch, a tightly-knit African American community on the Near East Side of Columbus, and became the heart of African American culture and community on the Near East Side, producing prominent artists, social justice activists, medical professionals, academics and politicians. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1990_Vol2p151
Subjects: Poindexter Village; Columbus (Ohio); African Americans--History; Public housing; Works Progress Administration; New Deal, 1933-1939
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Probably taken on opening day, October 12, 1940, this photograph shows a crowd of African American residents of Columbus at Poindexter Village, probably to see the completed housing development. Opened in 1940 on the Near East Side of Columbus (bound by I-71 to the west, Nelson Road to the east, Broad Street to the south, and I-670 to the north), Poindexter Village was the first public housing development in Ohio, and the second in the country, as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Designed by architect Howard Dwight Smith, Poindexter Village consisted of 35 two-story brick townhouses, housing 333 units with monthly rent costs ranging from $18.28 to $19.25. The United States Housing Authority funded its construction and the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority managed the development thereafter. Poindexter Village was one of 700 public housing developments built to provide affordable housing to working Americans, especially Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers, recovering from the Great Migration and the Great Depression. The development was named after the first African American elected to City Council and the Columbus School Board, Reverend James Poindexter, a local barber by trade and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Since the early 20th century, the Near East Side has been one of the most important African American communities in Columbus, with families displaced by the Civil War as its early inhabitants. Poindexter Village replaced the Blackberry Patch, a tightly-knit African American community on the Near East Side of Columbus, and became the heart of African American culture and community on the Near East Side, producing prominent artists, social justice activists, medical professionals, academics and politicians. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1990_Vol2p155
Subjects: Poindexter Village; Columbus (Ohio); African Americans--History; Public housing; Works Progress Administration; New Deal, 1933-1939
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)