- City:
- Indianapolis, IN
- Site Type:
- Public Housing, Civic Facilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1938
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The $3.2 million Lockefield Gardens, a public housing project, was funded by the Public Works Administration (PWA). The project was completed in 1938, abandoned during the mid-1970s and “redeveloped in the 1980s with new apartment buildings and rehabilitated units.”
“Due to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, the Public Works Administration started funding fifty low-cost public housing projects in twenty states from what were previously slum areas. Indianapolis was chosen to have one of these renovations; it would be the first major public housing within Indiana’s capital city. This land originally had 363 residences, of which only one was seen as “habitable”. Another goal of the project was to provide temporary construction jobs in the area, 9,000 in total.” (Wikipedia)
Source notes
"WPA put Hoosiers to work in dark days, built landmarks that remain," The Indianapolis Star, September 29, 2019 (page A2): https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/605813873/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockefield_Gardens
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on April 15, 2014.
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