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Hulme was the largest public housing development in Europe, encompassing 3,284 deck-access homes and capacity for over 13,000 people, [1] but was marred by serious construction and design errors. [2] Demolition of the Crescents, comprising 923 dwellings, began in 1993, 21 years after it was constructed in 1972.
In Milwaukee, 15 Lustron homes survive, as of 2014, in a cluster around Lincoln Creek north of Capitol Drive and Cooper Park. These are mostly the Winchester model, but the home at 5520 W. Philip Pl., which has a "unique blue and yellow color scheme, is almost certainly one of the early Esquire “demonstration” homes, which first appeared in ...
Lustron homes were usually built on concrete slab foundations with no basement. However, about 40 Lustron homes have been reported to have basements. [ 9 ] Their sturdy steel frame was constructed on-site and the house was assembled piece-by-piece from a special Lustron Corporation delivery truck.
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1974 (4 C, 1 P) Residential buildings completed in 1974 (2 C, 19 P) S. School buildings completed in 1974 (1 C, 3 P)
Altgeld Gardens Homes is a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project on the far south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States, on the border of Chicago and Riverdale, Illinois. The residents are 97% African-American according to the 2000 United States Census . [ 1 ]
Asbestos (/ æ s ˈ b ɛ s t ə s, æ z-,-t ɒ s / ass-BES-təs, az-, -toss) [1] is a group of naturally occurring, toxic, carcinogenic and fibrous silicate minerals.There are six types, all of which are composed of long and thin fibrous crystals, each fibre (particulate with length substantially greater than width) [2] being composed of many microscopic "fibrils" that can be released into ...
Nearly 40,000 of these structures were built between 1946 and 1949 to house families. Asbestos cement , genericized as fibro , fibrolite (short for "fibrous (or fibre) cement sheet"; but different from the natural mineral fibrolite ), or AC sheet , is a composite building material consisting of cement and asbestos fibres pressed into thin rigid ...
Neogothic-style Unitarian church built in 1907. Bought by the city in 1926 to become a children's library, then reclaimed as a Unitarian church in 1993. 4: Chesrow Site: Chesrow Site: November 30, 1978 : Western side of Highway 32, 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the Illinois line [7