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Creighton Court among most endangered places in Richmond

03/18/2015 7:55 AM by

Ed Slipek names Creighton Court among “The Nine Most Endangered Places in Richmond” in this week’s Style:

Richmond’s inner-city neighborhoods such as Creighton, Gilpin and Fairfield courts comprise, in total, the largest concentration of public housing between Washington and Atlanta. While memories run deep, some people won’t shed tears in the coming years while these unlovely, ill-landscaped masonry housing blocks give way to something, anything, new.

But a question some historians and preservationists are asking is whether or not some part of these complexes should be retained. They contain poignant history. Not only were they homes for hundreds of families since the middle of the 20th century, they are the manifestation of a great social experiment dating to before Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal years.

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PHOTO: TOP Mosby Court Central / BOTTOM Creighton Court


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