- City:
- Buffalo, NY
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Public Housing
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Completed:
- 1938
Description
Buffalo, New York’s first public housing project, known as Kenfield, was located on what had previously been vacant land a few miles northeast of the city’s downtown. Federal Public Works Administration funds (Docket No. H-6703) supported the project’s construction.
The project spanned roughly the area bounded by (and surrounding) Langfield Drive up to Kensington Highway, between Suffolk St. and Eggert Rd.
ArtVoice reported in 2011 that the project was originally whites-only and contained 658 housing units.
Source notes
https://artvoice.com/issues/v10n25/art_scene/project_history 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 14: New York State; Folder 13/14. https://via.lib.harvard.edu/via/deliver/chunkDisplay?_collection=via&inoID=306918&recordNumber=1&chunkNumber=2&method=view&image=full&startChunkNum=0&endChunkNum=0&totalChunkCount=0Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 3, 2014.
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Jarrod stroud
Gabriel Milner
Where do I get application for 2 bedrooms
You may want to contact the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority.
Their website is https://www.ci.buffalo.ny.us/home/cityservices/buffalo_municipal_housing_authority
I lived in the Kenfield project in 1949 which also included a day care center to assist working parents,
and returning veterans.
Recently I Googled this public housing project and was pleased to find it looks much as it did in the early 50s.
I wonder how that day care center was funded and I note to others on housing issues how well maintained this property is today.
Kudos to Buffalo New York on that project.