Description: Reverse reads: "U.S. Housing project in Toledo, Ohio. Photo by Edwin Locke for the U.S. Film Service." This is a photograph of an unknown housing project in Toledo, Ohio. With the New Deal, $150 million of the Works Progress Administration budget was set aside for housing. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F11_007_001
Subjects: Public housing--Ohio; Apartment Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: An aerial photograph of Lakeview Terrace, in Cleveland, Ohio, with the Cuyahoga River winding beside it. Lakeview Terrace, internationally known as a landmark in public housing, was one of three Cleveland housing projects that were the first to be authorized by the federal government's Public Works Administration. Together with Cedar-Central and Outhwaite, it began in 1935 and completed in 1937. Lakeview Terrace was especially notable because of its successful adaptation to a difficult site. The 22-acre site at W. 28th St. between Lake Erie and the Main Avenue Bridge was an irregular hillside with an 80-ft. drop in elevation. The scheme was adapted to the hillside by a curving road, with many of the housing units arranged in a fan-like pattern. There are 44 residential buildings of 3 types--apartments, row houses, and a combination of the two--oriented as much as possible to provide daylight and views of the lake. The architects were Joseph L. Weinberg in association with William. H. Conrad and Wallace G. Teare. The building construction was entirely fireproof, consisting of brick on tile walls with concrete roof and floor slabs and steel casement windows. The curved end walls, the windows arranged in horizontal bands, the iron railings, and especially the distinctive downturned hoods over the doorways reflected the work of International Style architects. Lakeview Terrace included the first community center in a public housing project. The project was also innovative in its use of the decorative arts, made possible by the creation of the Treasury Relief Art Project in 1935. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F06_007_1
Subjects: Public housing -- Ohio; Apartments; Public housing -- Ohio; Aerial photography; Rivers -- Ohio
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga 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: Dating June 16, 1939, this photograph shows the demolition of two structures on the north 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_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: This illustration shows a planned low-income housing community to be built on the East Side of Columbus, Ohio, from the Columbus Citizen-Journal Collection. The community would have been bounded by Woodland, Woodward, and Brentnell Avenues, as well as the New York Centrail Railroad right-of-way. Columbus residents strongly voted against a City Council rezoning of this property in an August 1963 referendum, which meant that the project was unable to move forward. An accompanying typed sheet providing additional details about the project reads, "An architect's rendering of one of the 82 brick buildings which will comprise the proposed Columbus Village, a new low-rent, low-income public housing, planned for the East End of the city on 45 acres of vacant land. Four different types of brick buildings are planned, according to the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority, to give variety and avoid monotony. Playgrounds and a park are part of the plans. The buildings would house 524 low-income families at rentals ranging from $16 to $52 a month, with $34 a month the average. Apartments will range from one to five bedrooms with modern kitchens and baths, and will house 2,224 men, women and children. Under the law, families of veterans and servicemen with low income have top priority. Families with children living in sub-standard housing and with low income are next. Aged persons on small pensions, persons on welfare, aid to the blind and aid to dependent children are also eligible. The income limits for eligibility are set low by state law." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P339_B03F05_12_01
Subjects: Public housing; Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Neighborhoods--Ohio--Columbus; Rental housing
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Cedar-Central Homes." With the New Deal, $150 million of the Public Works Administration (PWA) budget was set aside for housing. Cedar-Central was one of 3 Cleveland housing projects that were the first to be authorized by the federal government, the others being Lakeview Terrace and Outhwaite. Construction was begun in 1935 and completed in 1937. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F09_06_01
Subjects: Public housing--Ohio--Cleveland; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Lakeview Terraces." With the New Deal, $150 million of the Public Works Administration (PWA) budget was set aside for housing. Lakeview Terrace, internationally known as a landmark in public housing, was one of 3 Cleveland housing projects that were the first to be authorized by the federal government using funds from the PWA. Together with Cedar-Central and Outhwaite, it was begun in 1935 and completed in 1937. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F09_26_01
Subjects: Public housing--Ohio--Cleveland; Streets--Ohio--Cleveland; Automobiles
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Outhwaite Homes." With the New Deal, $150 million of the Public Works Administration (PWA) budget was set aside for housing. Outhwaite, was one of 3 Cleveland housing projects that were the first to be authorized by the federal government using funds from the PWA. Together with Cedar-Central and Lakeview Terrace, it was begun in 1935 and completed in 1937. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F09_27_01
Subjects: Public housing--Ohio--Cleveland
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Cedar Central Cleveland." With the New Deal, $150 million of the Public Works Administration (PWA) budget was set aside for housing. Cedar Central was one of three Cleveland housing projects that were the first to be authorized by the federal government using funds from the PWA. Together with Lakeview Terrace and Outhwaite, it was begun in 1935 and completed in 1937. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F10_18_01
Subjects: Public housing--Ohio--Cleveland; Aerial photography
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of the Lakeview Terrace housing project in Cleveland. With the New Deal, $150 million of the Public Works Administration (PWA) budget was set aside for housing. Lakeview Terrace, internationally known as a landmark in public housing, was one of 3 Cleveland housing projects that were the first to be authorized by the federal government using funds from the PWA. Together with Cedar-Central and Outhwaite, it was begun in 1935 and completed in 1937. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F10_22_01
Subjects: Public housing--Ohio--Cleveland
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga 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)