Homes for 1,141 families

Homes for 1,141 families
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Title: Homes for 1,141 families
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Architectural rendering of housing project; 8 x 10 in. Caption on verso of HOUS 0107: "Homes for 1,141 Families: Edmond B. Butler, chairman of the New York City Housing Authority, has announced plans are complete for another low-rent project, Gowanus Houses, to be built on a site bounded by Wyckoff, Douglass, Bond and Hoyt Sts. This State-aided development will cost $6,738,000. The architects are Rosario Candela, Ely Jacques Kahn and William T. McCarthy."

Date: 1945
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Boerum Hill (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Title from caption on verso of HOUS 0107.
On verso: date stamped: Oct. 14, 1945; New York City Housing Authority stamp on verso.
Collection: Housing
Subject: Public housing
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Renderings.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library.
ID: HOUS 0111