Jane Addams Homes (1938 site) (Chicago, Illinois)

USA / Illinois / Chicago / Chicago, Illinois / West Taylor Street, 1322-24
 housing services, public housing estate, historical layer / disappeared object
Former site of the Jane Addams Homes, the first housing "Project" built in 1938 under the WPA, prior to the founding of the CHA. In later years it was part of the larger "ABLA" CHA housing project.
www.angelfire.com/nv/207/chicagohpjaneaddamslinks.html

Demolished in 2007.

There is one building remaining that has been promised by the CHA to the National Public Housing Museum. For more info please go to: www.publichousingmuseum.org
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABLA#Jane_Addams_Homes
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Coordinates:   41°52'13"N   87°39'30"W
This article was last modified 11 years ago