Aluminum_City_Terrace,_Gropius,_HAER_PA,65-NEKEN,3-2.jpg

Description

English: Significance: Aluminum City Terrace, the only housing project in America designed by world-renowned architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer , was built by the federal government to house defense workers during World War II. The Terrace was the first defense housing development sold under the federal government's Mutual Home Ownership Plan and continues to operate as a successful cooperative.

Date

Documentation compiled after 1968

Source

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa2949

Author

Jet Lowe

Permission
( Reusing this file )

This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government , such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.

Creator: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Historic American Engineering Record . Survey number HAER PA,65-NEKEN,3-
Source: U.S. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, "Built in America" Collection .
Copyright: "The original measured drawings and most of the photographs and data pages in HABS/HAER/HALS were created for the U.S. Government and are considered to be in the public domain."

Other versions

See also HAER PA-343 for related documentation. Includes written data.

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