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3 unusual facts about Williamsburg Houses


Paul Kelpe

In 1936–1937, Kelpe painted two large abstract murals for Brooklyn's Williamsburg Housing Project after being hired by Burgoyne Diller for the New York City Works Progress Administration Mural Program of the Federal Art Project.

Ten Eyck

The Ten Eyck Houses is another name for the Williamsburg Houses, a 12-block low-rent housing project built in the 1930s in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Williamsburg Houses

The chief architect of the project was Richmond Shreve, and the design team of nine other architects was led by the pioneering Swiss-American modernist William Lescaze, whose Philadelphia Saving Fund Society building of 1928-32 was one of the first major International Style buildings in the United States.


Wilson Avenue Line

The route serves the Lindsay Park Houses, the Williamsburg Houses, Maria Hernandez Park, Irving Square, Cemetery of the Evergreens, Howard Housing, the Langston Hughes Apartments, Van Dyke Housing, the Tilden Houses, the Floyd Patterson Ball fields, the Breukelen Houses, and Breukelen Park.


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