Techwood Homes (Public Housing), Bounded by North Avenue, Parker Street, William Street & Lovejoy Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Significance: The first federally funded housing project in the United States, Techwood Homes represents the first large-scale attempt to eradicate slum housing in a socially humanitarian way in this country. Techwood's emphasis on living standards and community planning - as illustrated by its engineering and construction techniques, site layout, landscape and open space design - served as an experimental model for subsequent public housing projects.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N99

Survey number: HABS GA-2257

Building/structure dates: 1934-1936 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1993 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1955 Subsequent Work

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76000632

public housing brick buildings domestic life families economic and social conditions economic development building deterioration atlanta techwood homes techwood homes north avenue parker parker street william street lovejoy lovejoy street fulton county georgia burge and stevens norman c butts lina l cofresi incorporated edaw federal housing administration historic american buildings survey housing division of the public works administration ja jones construction company incorporated kitwrites charles f palmer public works administration pwa rosetta radtke dan scheidt kit sutherland the jaeger company photo ultra high resolution high resolution united states history building plans architectural diagrams design library of congress national register of historic places

1936 - 1980

Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/

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