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Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Row Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Row Houses, Bounded by Connor, East War...

Significance: The row house is the most common building type found at Parkside Homes, accounting for more than half of the total dwelling units within the project. These were produced from standard PWA plans. ... More

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Apartment Buildings, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Apartment Buildings, Bounded by Connor,...

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[Tugwell successor?, Washington, D.C. Oct. 8. Rumors in Washington have Rexford G. Tugwell shorn of his power in the Resettlement Administration in favor of Lieut. Col. Phillip B. Folming, former PWA official and director of the Passamaquoddy tide-harnessing project. Although RA officials denied a change has been mad, Col. Fleming has brought his secretary and assistants with him to the new job. Col. Fleming has a wide reputation as a technical expert and executive. In 1933 Col. Fleming was assigned personally by President Roosevelt to assist Secretary of the Interior Ickes in setting up the $3,300,000,000 Public Works Administration]

[Tugwell successor?, Washington, D.C. Oct. 8. Rumors in Washington hav...

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FIRST LADY CONGRATULATES NEW APPOINTEE TO SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD. WASHINGTON, D.C. DECEMBER 30. MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT CONGRATULATING MRS. ELLEN S. WOODWARD, WHO WAS TODAY SWORN IN AS A MEMBER OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD TO SUCCEED MISS MARY DEWSON. THE FIRST LADY WISHED MRS. WOODWARD 'THE UTMOST OF SUCCESS.' MRS. WOODWARD WAS FORMERLY AN ASSISTANT PWA ADMINISTRATOR

FIRST LADY CONGRATULATES NEW APPOINTEE TO SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD. WASHI...

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Tugwell successor?, Washington, D.C. Oct. 8. Rumors in Washington have Rexford G. Tugwell shorn of his power in the Resettlement Administration in favor of Lieut. Col. Phillip B. Folming, former PWA official and director of the Passamaquoddy tide-harnessing project. Although RA officials denied a change has been mad, Col. Fleming has brought his secretary and assistants with him to the new job. Col. Fleming has a wide reputation as a technical expert and executive. In 1933 Col. Fleming was assigned personally by President Roosevelt to assist Secretary of the Interior Ickes in setting up the $3,300,000,000 Public Works Administration

Tugwell successor?, Washington, D.C. Oct. 8. Rumors in Washington have...

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Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Row Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Row Houses, Bounded by Connor, East War...

Significance: The row house is the most common building type found at Parkside Homes, accounting for more than half of the total dwelling units within the project. These were produced from standard PWA plans. ... More

Republican Mayor of Philadelphia tells Chief Executive desire to cooperate, Washington, D.C. Aug.12. Republican Mayor S. Davis Wilson, of Philadelphia, talking to newspapermen at the White House today following a conference with President Roosevelt. At the same time he told President Roosevelt of his desire to cooperate with the administration, Mayor Wilson laid before the Chief Executive a request that Navy construction awards for a battleship, two submarines and destroyer be placed with the Philadelphia Navy Yard. He also asked for a 30 million PWA loan

Republican Mayor of Philadelphia tells Chief Executive desire to coope...

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Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Flat Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Flat Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Wa...

Significance: Flats were the least common dwelling unit type at Parkside Homes, accounting for less than one-fifth of the dwelling units. Three-quarters of the units provided only one bedroom and the remainder... More

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Apartment Buildings, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Apartment Buildings, Bounded by Connor,...

Survey number: HABS MI-409-E Public domain photograph - historical image of Michigan, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charges fraud in PWA Grant to Kansas City, Kan. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. Turney Gratz, Secretary-Manager of the Produce Dealers Division of the North Side Business and Improvement Association, Kansas City, KS[?], is here to lay before PWA Administrator Harold Ickes charges of fraud and deception in connection with the PWA Grant to the City of Kansas for $1,700,000 to construct a railroad produce market

Charges fraud in PWA Grant to Kansas City, Kan. Washington, D.C., Dec....

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To lay charges of fraud before Secretary of Interior Ickes. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. Turney Gratz, standing, Secretary-Manager of the Produce Dealers Division of the North Side Business and Improvement Association, Kansas City, KS[?], and Lieut. William M. Boyle Jr.. Secretary to the Kansas City Police Director, arrived here today to lay before PWA Administrator Harold Ickes charges of fraud, deception, and misrepresentation in connection with the PWA Grant to the City of Kansas for $1,700,000 to construct a railroad produce market. Lieut. Boyle supervised the investigation of the criminal activities case

To lay charges of fraud before Secretary of Interior Ickes. Washington...

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Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Apartment Buildings, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Apartment Buildings, Bounded by Connor,...

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PWA (Public Works Administration) housing projects for Negroes. Omaha, Nebraska

PWA (Public Works Administration) housing projects for Negroes. Omaha,...

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Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Row Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Row Houses, Bounded by Connor, East War...

Significance: The row house is the most common building type found at Parkside Homes, accounting for more than half of the total dwelling units within the project. These were produced from standard PWA plans. ... More

PWA ready for recovery gun--Ickes. Washington, D.C., April 26. Secretary Ickes today told the House Appropriations Sub-Committee in hearing on President Roosevelt's recovery program that the PWA has 2,714 approved public works projects which could be started within "60 to 90" days. Ickes statement was disclosed to newsmen by Rep. Clifton Woodrum, Chairman of the Sub-Committee. While he refused to make a statement, Ickes did say he had no objections to making PWA permanent as proposed in a bill by Rep. Alfred Beiter. In the group, left to right: (seated) Rep. J. Buell Snyder, Penna., Secretary Ickes, and Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum, Chairman. Standing, left to right, are: Howard A. Gray, Asst. WPA Administrator; and Ebert K. Burlew, Asst. Secretary of Interior, 42638

PWA ready for recovery gun--Ickes. Washington, D.C., April 26. Secreta...

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

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Flat Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Flat Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Wa...

Significance: Flats were the least common dwelling unit type at Parkside Homes, accounting for less than one-fifth of the dwelling units. Three-quarters of the units provided only one bedroom and the remainder... More

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Row Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Row Houses, Bounded by Connor, East War...

Significance: The row house is the most common building type found at Parkside Homes, accounting for more than half of the total dwelling units within the project. These were produced from standard PWA plans. ... More

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Row Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Row Houses, Bounded by Connor, East War...

Significance: The row house is the most common building type found at Parkside Homes, accounting for more than half of the total dwelling units within the project. These were produced from standard PWA plans. ... More

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Row Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Row Houses, Bounded by Connor, East War...

Significance: The row house is the most common building type found at Parkside Homes, accounting for more than half of the total dwelling units within the project. These were produced from standard PWA plans. ... More

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Row Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Row Houses, Bounded by Connor, East War...

Significance: The row house is the most common building type found at Parkside Homes, accounting for more than half of the total dwelling units within the project. These were produced from standard PWA plans. ... More

PWA Administrator. Washington D.C., July 14. Harry Hopkins, WPA Administrator, arriving at the White House for a conference with President Roosevelt on housing, 7/14/37

PWA Administrator. Washington D.C., July 14. Harry Hopkins, WPA Admini...

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Named to Federal Power Commission. Washington D.C. June 19. John W. Scott, of Indiana, has been appointed a member of the Federal Power Commission by President Roosevelt. He succeeds Herbert J. Drane, whose term expires June 22. At present Scott is a Special Assistant to the Attorney General and is charge of the 75 PWA Power cases. 6/19/37

Named to Federal Power Commission. Washington D.C. June 19. John W. Sc...

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Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Flat Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Flat Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Wa...

Significance: Flats were the least common dwelling unit type at Parkside Homes, accounting for less than one-fifth of the dwelling units. Three-quarters of the units provided only one bedroom and the remainder... More

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Apartment Buildings, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Apartment Buildings, Bounded by Connor,...

Survey number: HABS MI-409-E Public domain photograph - historical image of Michigan, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pennsylvania wants $60,000,000. Washington, D.C. A delegation from Pennsylvania called at the White House today asking for a $60,000,000 PWA Grant. President Roosevelt received the group. Left to right: John B. Kelly, Secretary of State Revenue for Pennsylvania; Dave Lawerence, Democratic State Chairman; Senator Joseph Guffey; and Governor Earle

Pennsylvania wants $60,000,000. Washington, D.C. A delegation from Pen...

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Unofficial "Mayor" of D.C. breaks leg. Sen. William King, D., of Utah, and chairman of the Senate District of Columbia committee, transacts business from his bed where he is confined as a result of a broken leg, fractured in a fall in his home. Sen. King, as chairman of the Senate Committee, is considered the unofficial "Mayor" of voteless District of Columbia. He now is striving to get a PWA loan for a new court house, 8/29/35

Unofficial "Mayor" of D.C. breaks leg. Sen. William King, D., of Utah,...

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A.F. of L. President protests to Roosevelt about P.W.A. labor. Washington, D.C., May 20. William Green, President of the A.F. of L. carried a protest to the president of the U.S. that a PWA order barred thousands of unemployed building workers from PWA projects because they are not actually on relief, that some of the labor unions are carrying these men, or have some other source of income other than government relief. Left to right: M.J. McDonough, Sec. Treasurer of the buildings Trade Dept. of the A.F. of L.; William Green, President; and Harry O. Dates, President of the Bricklayers Union, 5/20/1937

A.F. of L. President protests to Roosevelt about P.W.A. labor. Washing...

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PWA ready for recovery gun--Ickes. Washington, D.C., April 26. Secretary Ickes today told the House Appropriations Sub-Committee in hearing on President Roosevelt's recovery program that the PWA has 2,714 approved public works projects which could be started within "60 to 90" days. Ickes statement was disclosed to newsmen by Rep. Clifton Woodrum, Chairman of the Sub-Committee. While he refused to make a statement, Ickes did say he had no objections to making PWA permanent as proposed in a bill by Rep. Alfred Beiter. In the group, left to right: (seated) Rep. J. Buell Snyder, Penna., Secretary Ickes, and Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum, Chairman. Standing, left to right, are: Howard A. Gray, Asst. WPA Administrator; and Ebert K. Burlew, Asst. Secretary of Interior, 4/26/38

PWA ready for recovery gun--Ickes. Washington, D.C., April 26. Secreta...

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Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Flat Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Flat Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Wa...

Significance: Flats were the least common dwelling unit type at Parkside Homes, accounting for less than one-fifth of the dwelling units. Three-quarters of the units provided only one bedroom and the remainder... More

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Row Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Row Houses, Bounded by Connor, East War...

Significance: The row house is the most common building type found at Parkside Homes, accounting for more than half of the total dwelling units within the project. These were produced from standard PWA plans. ... More

PWA (Public Works Administration) housing project for Negroes. Omaha, Nebraska

PWA (Public Works Administration) housing project for Negroes. Omaha, ...

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Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Flat Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Flat Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Wa...

Significance: Flats were the least common dwelling unit type at Parkside Homes, accounting for less than one-fifth of the dwelling units. Three-quarters of the units provided only one bedroom and the remainder... More

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Flat Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Flat Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Wa...

Significance: Flats were the least common dwelling unit type at Parkside Homes, accounting for less than one-fifth of the dwelling units. Three-quarters of the units provided only one bedroom and the remainder... More

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Flat Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Flat Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Wa...

Significance: Flats were the least common dwelling unit type at Parkside Homes, accounting for less than one-fifth of the dwelling units. Three-quarters of the units provided only one bedroom and the remainder... More

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Apartment Buildings, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Apartment Buildings, Bounded by Connor,...

Survey number: HABS MI-409-E Public domain photograph - historical image of Michigan, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Row Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Row Houses, Bounded by Connor, East War...

Significance: The row house is the most common building type found at Parkside Homes, accounting for more than half of the total dwelling units within the project. These were produced from standard PWA plans. ... More

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Row Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Row Houses, Bounded by Connor, East War...

Significance: The row house is the most common building type found at Parkside Homes, accounting for more than half of the total dwelling units within the project. These were produced from standard PWA plans. ... More

New first Assistant to PWA administrator. Washington, D.C., Nov. 1. Howard A. Gray, of Chicago, enter former Director of Housing for PWA today was sworn in as Assistant Administrator of Public Works. Floyd Dodson, Chief Clerk of the Interior is on the left, Sec. of the Interior Harold Ickes on the right

New first Assistant to PWA administrator. Washington, D.C., Nov. 1. Ho...

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DEDICATES NEW CHEMISTRY BUILDING AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DELIVERING THE PRINCIPAL ADDRESS AS THE NEW $625,000 CHEMISTRY ERECTED BY THE PWA FOR HOWARD UNIVERSITY WAS DEDICATED TODAY. L TO R: PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT; DR. MORDECAI JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY; AND PWA ADMINISTRATOR HAROLD ICKES

DEDICATES NEW CHEMISTRY BUILDING AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY. PRESIDENT ROOSE...

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Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Flat Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Flat Houses, Bounded by Connor, East Wa...

Significance: Flats were the least common dwelling unit type at Parkside Homes, accounting for less than one-fifth of the dwelling units. Three-quarters of the units provided only one bedroom and the remainder... More

Interior Secretary and his choice for federal housing post. Washington, D.C., Sept. 20. Following a meeting today with housing experts from all parts of the country, Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes views a a map showing the location of the many low-cost housing projects now under way. Dr. Howard A. Gray, head of the PWA Housing Administration and Ickes' choice for the newly created $10,000 post as administrator of the U.S. Housing Authority, points out the locations to the secretary. Today's meeting was called to discuss the operation of the $500,000,000 Wagner Housing Act. 9/20/37

Interior Secretary and his choice for federal housing post. Washington...

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Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Apartment Buildings, Bounded by Connor, East Warren, & Gray Avenues & Frankfort Road, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Parkside Homes & Addition, PWA Apartment Buildings, Bounded by Connor,...

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PWA oxen - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

PWA oxen - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Low rent housing may be expanded. Washington, D.C., April 11. A White House conference with officials of Government Housing today brought a suggestion that the Low Rent, Housing and Slum Clearance Program may be expanded, the conferences discussed what they characterized as the "General Program" presumed to refer to proposals for new PWA expenditures, left to right: Nathan Straus, Chief of U.S. Housing Authority, Ebert K. Burlew, Asst. Sec. of the Interior, Sec. of the Interior Harold Ickes, and Stewart McDonald, Federal Housing Administrator, 4/11/38

Low rent housing may be expanded. Washington, D.C., April 11. A White ...

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