More Than What We Had: An Architectural and Historical Documentation of the Village Creek Project Neighborhoods Birmingham, Alabama

Abstract

The Village Creek Architectural and Historical Documentation Project consisted of the preparation of measured floor plans for 26 historic structures; streetscape photographs for sections of East Birmingham and East Lake/Roebuck; historical research and photographic documentation of a church and store in East Birmingham and a Victorian Cottage in East Lake/Roebuck; oral historical interviews; and the preparation of a project report documenting these efforts. The neighborhoods under study: Ensley, East Birmingham, East Lake, and Roebuck, represents different responses to Birmingham's industrial expansion of the late nineteenth the early twentieth centuries. Ensley most closely resembles a company town, planned and developed as a distinct urban entity geared to the Ensley (later TCI and U.S. Steel) ironworks. (EMK)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 27, 1989
Accession Number
ADA217917

Entities

People

  • Mary B. Reed

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Corps Of Engineers
  • Communities
  • Construction
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Engineers
  • Environment
  • Families (Human)
  • Geography
  • Industrial Plants
  • Inhabitants
  • Iron Industry
  • Money
  • Photographs
  • Topography
  • United States
  • Urban Planning

Fields of Study

  • History

Readers

  • Archaeological Resource Survey
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.