Slide Title
Preview
Date
1-1-1979
Description
Chad Brown is a public housing complex in Wanskuck that was completed in 1951. It and its adjacent project, Admiral Terrace, were the first public housing situations built by the Public Housing Authority on poor land and left to deterioration. In the late 1970s, renovations became necessary to make, demolishing some of the structures. This led to the temporary-intentions of the project becoming complicated, and insufficiently able to provide adequate upkeep and surveillance through a manual of rules. Chad Brown serves a large point in understanding the structuring of public housing in general and specifically to Providence for the different periods of its status (e.g. first being developed under segregation).
Creator 2 Dates
1941, 1951
Creator 2 Role
Architect
Building Type
Public housing
Themes
Urban Redevelopment
Subject Headings
Single-family homes -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Urban development -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Housing development -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Urban renewal -- Rhode Island -- Providence
Country Name
United States
Region Name
Rhode Island
City Name
Providence
Street Address
263 Chad Brown Street
Recommended Citation
Smolski, Chester, "Chad Brown Public Housing Complex" (1979). Smolski Images. 973.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/973
Keywords
public housing, urban development
Notes
Bibliography: Woodward, Wm McKenzie and Edward F. Sanderson. "Providence: A Citywide Survey of Historical Resources." Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1986, pp. 161. Campbell, Paul. “A Community Apart: A History Of Public Housing in Providence.” Rhode Island Publications Society, 2007, pp. 171-172, 335.