Logan Fontenelle Housing Project (demolished) – Omaha NE

City:
Omaha, NE

Site Type:
Public Housing, Civic Facilities

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding

Completed:
1938

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

Omaha’s Logan Fontenelle Housing Project was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project during the Great Depression. Located from 20th to 24th Streets, and from Paul Street north, the project was demolished in 1995.

PWA Docket No. H-2001

Source notes

National Archives Record Group 135-SAR: Prints: Photographs rejected for use in the Photographic Report to the President: “Survey of the Architecture of Completed Projects of the PWA, 1939”; Box 23: Federal Folder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Fontenelle_Housing_Project

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on April 17, 2017.

Location Info


N 21st St. and Charles St.
Omaha, NE

Coordinates: 41.272236, -95.942996

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