- City:
- Jackson, TN
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Public Housing
- New Deal Agencies:
- Housing Programs, US Housing Authority (USHA)
- Started:
- 1940
- Designer:
- Frazier Smith
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The 96-unit public housing was constructed for African-Americans during the Great Depression. It was demolished following damage from a tornado in 2003.
Source notes
Van West, C. (2001). Tennessee’s New Deal Landscape: A Guidebook. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. Secretary named. (March 20, 1940). The Kingsport Times, p. 6.Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on December 20, 2014.
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Brandon Woods
I’m from here I still currently stay in this town very happy to know there’s history about my birthplace and I have more and would love to learn more about merry lane court and more places