- City:
- Jacksonville, FL
- Site Type:
- Public Housing, Civic Facilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Completed:
- 1936
- Designer:
- M.C. Greeley
- Contractors:
- Inc., N. S. Baird
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
Built in 1936, Durkeeville was once public housing — the second public housing project built in Florida under the federal Public Works Administration. This was listed as 239 living units, one and two story group houses, costing $1,000,000. Durkeeville was razed in September 1997.
The Durkeeville historical society building houses the 1936 cornerstone of the original public housing project.
Source notes
https://www.thejaxsonmag.com/article/overlooked-black-history-durkeeville/
https://www.durkeevillehistoricalsociety.org
https://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/1999/02/08/story4.html
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on September 5, 2022.
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