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Parkside Homes & Addition, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues, Frankfort Road, & Zachariah Chandler Park, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

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Parkside Homes & Addition, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues, Frankfort Road, & Zachariah Chandler Park, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

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Summary

Significance: Parkside Homes was the first federally-funded low-income public housing project built in Detroit and in Michigan. It was an important and controversial response to Detroit's serious housing crisis of the 1930s.
Survey number: HABS MI-409

date_range

Date

1933 - 1970

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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

place

Location

Detroit (Mich.), 42.39792, -82.96763

Google Map of 42.3979236, -82.9676299

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Source

Library of Congress

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Link

http://www.loc.gov/

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