Child at Barry Farm Dwellings.

ID: 4850 ~ Source: Courtesy of the National Capital Housing Authority (Now D.C. Housing Authority). ~ Date: c. 1940s
This file appears in: Barry Farm Dwellings
Child at Barry Farm Dwellings.
This file appears in: Barry Farm Dwellings

Built by DC’s Alley Dwelling Authority in 1942-1943, Barry Farm is historically significant as a center of Black activism in the 1960s. Named for original owner James Barry, a Washington city merchant and councilman who purchased the land in the…