Langston Terrace Dwellings, Exterior

ID: 454 ~ Source: DC Preservation League Photo Repository ~ Creator: NPS HABS Survey

This file appears in: Langston Terrace Dwellings: Designed by Hilyard Robinson, Langston Terrace was the first federally-funded public housing complex in DC.

This file appears in: Langston Terrace Dwellings: Designed by Hilyard Robinson, Langston Terrace was the first federally-funded public housing complex in DC.

Langston Terrace Dwellings: Designed by Hilyard Robinson, Langston Terrace was the first federally-funded public housing complex in DC.

By The DC Historic Sites team

Named for John Mercer Langston (1829-1897), the Langston Terrace Dwellings was the first of eight housing projects designed by Hilyard R. Robinson (1899-1986), a noted Black Bauhaus-trained architect…