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The garden style apartment buildings were built around common areas (mews). Daniel Gillette Olney 's The Progress of the Negro Race is a terra-cotta frieze located in the central courtyard. The frieze depicts African American history from slavery to World War I migration. [ 2 ]
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designed by Wichita builder Thomas C. Naylor and completed in 1923. This is an early example of a three story garden style apartment. Each floor has three 2-bedroom apartments, two 1-bedroom apartments and an efficiency apartment. Early tenants included a lawyer, oil broker, geologist, and lumberman, along with Thomas Naylor and his family. 3 ...
The buildings of the Hampshire Garden Apartments compose the first fully developed garden apartment complex in the city, although only part of it was built. [2] The initial plan was for the complex to have 2,500 units, but the Great Depression brought construction to an end in 1929. The complex was built as middle-class housing and was an early ...
Courtyard housing is a distinct medium-density multi-family housing typology centered on a shared outdoor open space or garden and surrounded by one or two stories of apartment units typically only accessed by courtyard from the street (and not by an interior corridor). Courtyard housing developed independently in many cultures around the world ...
Bouquet Gardens at the University of Pittsburgh. Posvar Hall and the Cathedral of Learning seen from Bouquet Gardents.. Bouquet Gardens is a major student residential complex of the University of Pittsburgh consisting of eight 4-story garden-style gabled-roofed apartment buildings (Buildings A through H) clustered around progression of courtyards connected by an interior pathway as well as a ...
Parkway Gardens Apartment Homes, built from 1950 to 1955, was the last of Henry K. Holsman's many housing development designs in Chicago. Holsman began designing low-income housing in Chicago in the 1910s when an urban housing shortage developed after World War I.