Douglass and Harrison Apartments (demolished) – Newark NJ

City:
Newark, NJ

Site Type:
Civic Facilities, Public Housing

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Civil Works Administration (CWA)

Started:
1933

Completed:
1935

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

The since-demolished Douglass and Harrison Apartments was a housing project in Newark, New Jersey.

According to the Federal Writers’ Project, “Construction costs (approximately $1,800,000) were reduced through the help of the city and the Civil Works Administration in grading the entire site.”

Source notes

"New Jersey, a guide to its present and past"; Federal Writers' Project, 1939 (page 336).

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on July 9, 2014.

Location Info


Somerset St.
Newark, NJ Essex County

Coordinates: 40.726953, -74.18664

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