University Homes

University Homes is a Georgia historical marker in Fulton County, dedicated 2022.

660 Atlanta Student Movement Blvd. SW.

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At this site stood University Homes. Conceptualized by Atlanta University President John Hope, the 675-unit development replaced the overcrowded Beaver Slide neighborhood near the newly formed Atlanta University Center. Simultaneously, developer Charles Palmer sought to raze the Tech Flats neighborhood near his midtown properties. Palmer and Hope applied separately for funding from the federal Public Works Administration (PWA), created to encourage economic recovery during the Great Depression. In 1933, the PWA funded the construction of University Homes for Black Atlantans and Techwood Homes for White Atlantans, the nation's first federally funded housing projects. Completed in 1937 and 1936, respectively, the projects led to the Atlanta Housing Authority's creation in 1938. University Homes provided housing for the community until its demolition in 2009 as part of a Housing and Urban Development plan. Only Roosevelt Hall remains.

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Historical maps covering this location

1874 · Military Operations of the Atlanta Campaign. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · Atlanta, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1924 · South Carolina. Florida. Georgia. Mississippi. Alabama. North Carolina. South Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1954 · East Point, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1954 · Southwest Atlanta, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

South Carolina. Florida. Georgia. Mississippi. Alabama. North Carolina. South Carolina, 1924, covering the location of University Homes, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — South Carolina. Florida. Georgia. Mississippi. Alabama. North Carolina. South Carolina, 1924, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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