- Collection:
- Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
- Title:
- DeSoto Homes, Building Nos. C-1--C-2, 712-726 North Fourth Avenue, 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.
City Beautiful movement
segregation
public housing
Spanish Colonial Revival architectural elements - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Floyd County, Rome, 34.25704, -85.16467
- Medium:
- photographs
field notes - Type:
- Still Image
Text - Description:
- Photo(s): 9 | Data Page(s): 11 | Photo Caption Page(s): 4
Significance: Built in 1940 under the United States Housing Authority, DeSoto Homes is significant as the first federally funded public housing project in Rome, Georgia. Building Numbers C-1 and C-2 are the two examples of a Type C Plan Building in the DeSoto Homes housing project. The Type C Plan Building is a two-story, seven-unit row house with five, four-and-a-half room units and one, three room unit on each floor at the eastern end of the building.
Survey number: HABS GA-2403-D
Building/structure dates: 2010 Demolished
Building/structure dates: 1940 Initial Construction - Local Identifier:
- HABS GA-2403-D
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/ga1024/
- 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:
-
