- Collection:
- Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
- Title:
- Clark Howell Homes, Building J-1, 432 Venable Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA
- Creator:
- Historic American Buildings Survey
- Contributor to Resource:
- Hentz, Adler & Schutze,
Armistead, J Warren,
Henderson, Edith,
Housing Authority of the City of Atlanta,
Lose, Robert G,
Newcomb & Boyd,
Warren Epstein & Associates, Architects, Inc., contractor
KitWrites, Inc., contractor
Epstein, Kyle F, historian
Sutherland, Kit, historian
Mosier, Phillip, photographer - Date of Original:
- 1933/9999
- Subject:
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
garden apartments
public housing
wrought-iron fences
gable roofs
yards
cantilevered roofs - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
field notes - Type:
- Still Image
Text - Description:
- Photo(s): 9 | Measured Drawing(s): 4 | Data Page(s): 15 | Photo Caption Page(s): 2
Significance: Building J-1 is a typical residential building in Clark Howell Homes, which is considered eligible for the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Clark Howell Homes is the first public housing project to be completed by the Atlanta Housing Authority, which was created in May 1938. Clark Howell Homes in a representative example of pre-World War II housing projects constructed by local housing authorities nationwide with the assistance of the United States Housing Authority. Clark Howell Homes was designed by the prominent Atlanta firm of Hentz, Adler, and Schutze. The project was named in honor of Clark Howell, Sr., one of several Atlanta businessmen who were instrumental in securing federal funds to alleviate slum housing conditions in Atlanta during the 1930s.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N532
Survey number: HABS GA-2309-M
Building/structure dates: 1939- 1941 Initial Construction - Local Identifier:
- HABS GA,61-ATLA,63M-
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/ga0787/
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
- Original Collection:
- Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
- Holding Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
-
