Barry Farm Dwellings (interior), c. 1950.

ID: 4851 ~ Source: Photo courtesy of the D.C. Housing Authority.
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Barry Farm Dwellings (interior), c. 1950.
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…