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Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland C...

See also HAER PA-343 for related documentation. Includes written data. Significance: Aluminum City Terrace, the only housing project in America designed by world-renowned architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Br... More

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland C...

See also HAER PA-343 for related documentation. Includes written data. Significance: Aluminum City Terrace, the only housing project in America designed by world-renowned architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Br... More

Defense housing. Langley Field, Newport News, Virginia. This project built by the Federal Works Agency and the Public Buildings Administration, at a cost of $1,282,000 contains 350 units to house married enlisted personnel employed at the Army Air base. Construction is about ninety percent completed and rentals run about twenty percent of tenant's income

Defense housing. Langley Field, Newport News, Virginia. This project b...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland C...

See also HAER PA-343 for related documentation. Includes written data. Significance: Aluminum City Terrace, the only housing project in America designed by world-renowned architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Br... More

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland C...

See also HAER PA-343 for related documentation. Includes written data. Significance: Aluminum City Terrace, the only housing project in America designed by world-renowned architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Br... More

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland C...

See also HAER PA-343 for related documentation. Includes written data. Significance: Aluminum City Terrace, the only housing project in America designed by world-renowned architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Br... More

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland C...

See also HAER PA-343 for related documentation. Includes written data. Significance: Aluminum City Terrace, the only housing project in America designed by world-renowned architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Br... More

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland C...

See also HAER PA-343 for related documentation. Includes written data. Significance: Aluminum City Terrace, the only housing project in America designed by world-renowned architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Br... More

Administration leaders explain works financing bill in radio round table. Washington, D.C., July 24. Leaders of the administration fight to pass intact the so-called 'spend-lend' bill under the Federal Works Agency, tonight went on the air to explain the bill. The round table on the 'Works Financing Act', was participated in by, left to right - Emil Schram, Chairman of the RFC, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee through which the bill must be reported to the Senate Sen. Robert Wagner, Sponser of the Bill and Majority Leader Sen. Alben Barkley, and John Carmody, Administrator of the Federal Works Agency, 7/24/39

Administration leaders explain works financing bill in radio round tab...

A group of men sitting around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. To relieve the shortage of housing for Negro women war workers in Washington, the Federal Works Agency (FWA) is completing construction of Wake and Midway Halls, which will accommodate 1,000 women. The project was erected by Samuel Plato, Negro contractor, at a cost of $1,600,000. Photo shows front elevation of the dining room and recreation buildings attached to the structure

Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. To relieve the shortage o...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland C...

See also HAER PA-343 for related documentation. Includes written data. Significance: Aluminum City Terrace, the only housing project in America designed by world-renowned architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Br... More

Ramsey Homes, East side of the 600 block of North Patrick Street, Alexandria, Independent City, Virginia

Ramsey Homes, East side of the 600 block of North Patrick Street, Alex...

Significance: The Ramsey Homes were designed by Alexandria architect and architectural historian Delos H. Smith, FAIA, of Smith, Werner, and Billings Architects in the Modernist style in 1941 and completed by t... More

Ramsey Homes, East side of the 600 block of North Patrick Street, Alexandria, Independent City, Virginia

Ramsey Homes, East side of the 600 block of North Patrick Street, Alex...

Significance: The Ramsey Homes were designed by Alexandria architect and architectural historian Delos H. Smith, FAIA, of Smith, Werner, and Billings Architects in the Modernist style in 1941 and completed by t... More

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland C...

See also HAER PA-343 for related documentation. Includes written data. Significance: Aluminum City Terrace, the only housing project in America designed by world-renowned architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Br... More

Bulldozers with houses under construction at Kearney-Mesa. This is a defense housing project of the Public Buildings Administration by the Federal Works Agency

Bulldozers with houses under construction at Kearney-Mesa. This is a d...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland C...

See also HAER PA-343 for related documentation. Includes written data. Significance: Aluminum City Terrace, the only housing project in America designed by world-renowned architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Br... More

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland C...

See also HAER PA-343 for related documentation. Includes written data. Significance: Aluminum City Terrace, the only housing project in America designed by world-renowned architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Br... More

Administration leaders explain works financing bill in radio round table. Washington, D.C., July 24. Leaders of the administration fight to pass intact the so-called 'spend-lend' bill under the Federal Works Agency, tonight went on the air to explain the bill. The round table on the 'Works Financing Act', was participated in by, left to right - Emil Schram, Chairman of the RFC, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee through which the bill must be reported to the Senate Sen. Robert Wagner, Sponser of the Bill and Majority Leader Sen. Alben Barkley, and John Carmody, Administrator of the Federal Works Agency, 72439

Administration leaders explain works financing bill in radio round tab...

A group of men sitting around a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General i... More

Defense housing. Langley Field, Newport News, Virginia. This project built by the Federal Works Agency and the Public Buildings Administration, at a cost of $1,282,000 contains 350 units to house married enlisted personnel employed at the Army Air base. Construction is about ninety percent completed and rentals run about twenty percent of tenant's income

Defense housing. Langley Field, Newport News, Virginia. This project b...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. To relieve the shortage of housing for Negro women war workers in Washington, the Federal Works Agency (FWA) is completing construction of Wake and Midway Halls, which will accommodate 1,000 women. The project was erected by Samuel Plato, Negro contractor, at a cost of $1,600,000. Photo shows front elevation of the dining room and recreation buildings attached to the structure

Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. To relieve the shortage o...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland C...

See also HAER PA-343 for related documentation. Includes written data. Significance: Aluminum City Terrace, the only housing project in America designed by world-renowned architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Br... More

Ramsey Homes, East side of the 600 block of North Patrick Street, Alexandria, Independent City, Virginia

Ramsey Homes, East side of the 600 block of North Patrick Street, Alex...

Significance: The Ramsey Homes were designed by Alexandria architect and architectural historian Delos H. Smith, FAIA, of Smith, Werner, and Billings Architects in the Modernist style in 1941 and completed by t... More

Ramsey Homes, East side of the 600 block of North Patrick Street, Alexandria, Independent City, Virginia

Ramsey Homes, East side of the 600 block of North Patrick Street, Alex...

Significance: The Ramsey Homes were designed by Alexandria architect and architectural historian Delos H. Smith, FAIA, of Smith, Werner, and Billings Architects in the Modernist style in 1941 and completed by t... More

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland C...

See also HAER PA-343 for related documentation. Includes written data. Significance: Aluminum City Terrace, the only housing project in America designed by world-renowned architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Br... More