Langston Terrace’s architect, Hilyard Robinson, with a model of the project

ID: 4010 ~ Source: Courtesy of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University Archives, Howard University, Washington DC

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Langston Terrace Dwellings: 21st and Benning Road, NE

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Langston Terrace Dwellings: 21st and Benning Road, NE

Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Langston Terrace Dwellings: 21st and Benning Road, NE

By DC Historic Preservation Office

Langston Terrace Dwellings opened in 1938 as one of the nation’s earliest federally funded public housing projects for lower income residents and only the second one to be built for African Americans.…