- City:
- Meridian, MS
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Public Housing
- New Deal Agencies:
- Housing Programs, Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
- Started:
- 1940
- Completed:
- 1940
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Mountain View Village was begun as a white housing complex, one of four low rent housing projects. Contracts were awarded in January 1940.
Source notes
Mountain View Village. Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Resources Inventory database. Dennis, B. (February 24, 1939). Meridian okehs agreement on housing project to cost $1,500,000. Clarion-Ledger, p. 9. Million dollar housing projects. (January 1, 1940). Delta Democrat-Times, p. 1.Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on September 13, 2016.
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