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Aluminum City Terrace, Community Building, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA
Summary
Significance: Aluminum City Terrace, the only housing project in America designed by world-renowned architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, was built by the federal government to house defense workers during World War II. The Terrace was the first defense housing development sold under the federal government's Mutual Home Ownership Plan and continues to operate as a successful cooperative.
Survey number: HAER PA-302-E
Building/structure dates: 1941-1942 Initial Construction
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Location
New Kensington (Pa.), 40.57116, -79.73607
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
