Washington DC History Resources

Matthew B. Gilmore

Commandeered Housing in WWI Washington, DC: A Federal Landlording Nightmare–References and Resources

Records of the U.S. Housing Corporation [USHC]. RG 3.
National Archives and Records Administration

Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. “Lessons from housing developments of the United States Housing Corporation.” Monthly Labor Review 8 (May 1919):27-38.

Charles Whitney Gilmore Residence, 451 Park Road, NW Application for Historic Landmark Designation. May 2015.

United States Department of Labor. Bureau of Industrial Housing and Transportation. War Emergency Construction (Housing War Workers). Report of The United States Housing Corporation. Volume I-Organization. Policies. Transactions. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1920.

United States Housing Corporation; hearings Before a Subcommittee of The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, United States Senate. Part 1. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1919.

Workers’ Paradise: The Forgotten Communities of World War I — USHC Architects, Landscape Architects, and Planners http://web.mit.edu/ebj/www/ww1/people.html

Annual Report of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board : Eleventh Annual Report of the Federal Home Loan Bank Administration, For the Period July 1, 1942, through June 30, 1943. Washington DC, 1943. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/70/item/23535/toc/352033

hAnnual Report of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board : National Housing Agency: Tenth Annual Report, Federal Home Loan Bank Administration, For the Period July 1, 1941-June 30, 1942
https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/70/item/23520/toc/131523

Establishing Park View — Part II: Developer Middaugh & Shannon https://parkviewdc.com/2015/08/25/establishing-park-view-part-ii-developer-middaugh-shannon/

Eran Ben-Joseph. Workers’ Paradise: The Forgotten Communities of World War I. http://web.mit.edu/ebj/www/ww1/ww1a.html

United States Housing Corporation Historic District, New London City, New London County, New London, CT, 06320. http://www.livingplaces.com/CT/New_London_County/New_London_City/United_States_Housing_Corporation_Historic_District.html