Cochran Gardens St Louis
Demolished 2008 built in the early 1950s next door to neighorhood gardens these public housing units werent quite the terrifying spectacle that places like.
Cochran gardens st louis. The site of the public housing project cochran gardens between 9th and 7th streets north of downtown illustrates the rise fall and kinda sorta rise again of vernacular american architecture. Housing projects to have tenant management. The complex was occupied until 2006 it was famous for its residents innovative form of tenant led management. Cochran gardens was a public housing complex on the near north side of downtown st.
Located in the columbus square neighborhood adjacent to downtown st. Housing projects to have tenant management. Cochran gardens is a residential complex in st. Louis vanished buildings north side cochran gardens.
Hellmuth yamasaki leinweber status. Constructed in 1952 and occupied until 2006 it was famous for its residents innovative form of tenant led management. Blumeyer had just four towers not grouped together. 1952 and later architect.
The latter only had high rise towers but the former had a mix of low rise and high rise buildings. Blumeyer elderly apartments january 2007. In 1976 cochran gardens became one of the first us. Cochran gardens phase ii b is a 30 unit affordable housing community in st louis missouri.
Cochran gardens was a public housing complex on the near north side of downtown st. By the time blumeyer was built in 1967 problems were becoming clear at older public housing complexes such as cochran gardens and pruitt igoe. The sites mostly brick tenements were in a range of styles greek revival italianate federal typical of the 19th century. Housing projects to have tenant management.
Construction was completed in 1953. Return to the public housing page. Designed by george hellmuth and completed in 1953 cochran gardens was the citys third federally funded housing project built by the st. View a detailed profile of the structure 100775 including further data and descriptions in the emporis database.
Louis cochran plaza offers a mix of 78 two to six bedroom townhouse units convenient to the washington avenue loft district the mississippi river the north riverfront trail and lacledes landing. In 1976 cochran gardens became one of the first us.