Mayflower Mansions, Present Day

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This file appears in: Mayfair Mansions: The Mayfair Mansions apartment complex represented a significant development in fair housing for African Americans.

This file appears in: Mayfair Mansions: The Mayfair Mansions apartment complex represented a significant development in fair housing for African Americans.

Mayfair Mansions: The Mayfair Mansions apartment complex represented a significant development in fair housing for African Americans.

By The DC Historic Sites team

Mayfair Mansions, built between 1942 and 1946, was designed by Albert I. Cassell, a Black architect who conceived of a park-like setting, citing the 17 buildings of the complex on angles about a…