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Philadelphia Housing Association

    Suburban-style Blackwell Homes
    Evoking Suburbia

    The controversial suburban-like ambience of Lucien E. Blackwell Homes.

    Haddington Homes Courtyard
    Haddington Homes Courtyard

    The image is a courtyard in Haddington Homes, on the south side of the 5500 block of Vine St.

    Entrance to Haddington Homes
    Haddington Homes

    Post-Millennial row housing as public housing, an adoption of the name assigned to Haddington’s 1950s–60s used house program. Haddington Homes and Arch Homes have the same design and landscape arrangements.

    Arch Homes viewed from 56th St.
    Arch Homes on 56th St.

    On 56th St., a rear wall of rowhouses in the Arch Homes complex.

    Mantua Square
    Mantua Hall: From Tower to Square

    Opened in 1961 in the working-poor, black-segregated neighborhood of Mantua, Mantua Hall was an 18-storey, 153-unit modernist apartment tower built to house 495 people.

    Armstrong Association Fundraising Campaign Stamp
    Private Organizations Respond to the Post-War Housing Crisis

    Concerned Philadelphians addressed the housing issues and discrimination faced by migrants.