- Collection:
- Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
- Title:
- DeSoto Homes, Bounded by Turner McCall Boulevard, North Fifth Avenue, West Ninth Street & Keelway Drive, Rome, Floyd County, GA
- Creator:
- Historic American Buildings Survey
- Contributor to Resource:
- Cooper and Cooper, Architect
Poundstone, Odis Clay, Architect
Pauley, William C, Landscape Architect
Housing Authority of the City of Rome, Owner
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, sponsor
Northwest Georgia Housing Authority, sponsor
Diener, David, photographer - Date of Original:
- 1933/9999
- Subject:
- Rome (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
public housing
segregation
Spanish Colonial Revival architectural elements
City Beautiful movement - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Floyd County, Rome, 34.25704, -85.16467
- Medium:
- photographs
field notes - Type:
- Still Image
Text - Description:
- Photo(s): 28 | Data Page(s): 23 | Photo Caption Page(s): 4
Significance: Built in 1939-1940, DeSoto Homes is significant as the first federally funded public housing project built in Rome, Georgia under the auspices of the United States Housing Authority. As one of the earliest public housing programs in the state, it is considered historically significant for its role in Georgia's twentieth-century history. It also speaks to the history of segregation. DeSoto Homes was originally limited to white residents as a result of housing laws enforced during the Jim Crow Era. The smaller development of Altoview Terrace, located in East Rome, was built at the same time for African-American residents (See HABS No. GA-###) as part of the project. The name of the DeSoto Homes community and its Spanish Colonial Revival style design reflect Rome's association with explorer Hernando de Soto's expedition through Georgia in 1540 and the 400th anniversary of that event.
Survey number: HABS GA-2403
Building/structure dates: after. 1938- before. 1941 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 2010 Demolished - Local Identifier:
- HABS GA-2403
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/ga1020/
- 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:
-
