Campaign for the Archer Courts, June 1953. Courtesy of the Housing Authority. great, unfulfilledgreat, aspiration. housing in advancing this history —the role public of chapter in our nation’s Museum akey preserves NationalThe Public Housing have to ahome. the right simple truth —that all people with a Our starts story Join our community as we foster the collection of oral histories and National Public Housing Museum Power of Place: Campaign for the and propel housing as ahuman right. advance our mission as amuseum, making hub, to preserve, promote, most important historic important most sites. restoration one at of our nation’s cultural center, and creative place exhibitions, preservation, and programming, innovative objects, dialogue and create change through

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- 48,000-square-foot space that will firsthand stories of residents willbe Within this historic space, compelling teach, andteach, inspire. scholarship of historians and passion and historians of scholarship Located inLocated the last remaining ate efforts of activists to remember, artifact in the Museum’s collection. brought together with thoughtful with brought together ourbe permanent home is the largest building Homes Addams Jane the of on Chicago’s Near West Side, the

- Who can call us back to the true meaning of ourselves as a nation in the caring for the least “The Museum will In the 199Os, a group explore our nation’s of public housing commitment to its residents began to advantaged among us? people, especially preserve the stories the most disadvan- of communities they taged, and be a site saw being threat- of conscience to ened. Among them was foreground issues of Founding Board Chair race and poverty to Deverra Beverly. Her I believe it is the National Public connect this history vision gave birth to to current movements the National Public for social change.” Housing Museum, and her dedication to Sunny Fischer, NPHM Housing Museum. realizing the Museum Board Chair never wavered. Image, above: Sunny Ruth Abram, Founder, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, NY Image, above: Founding Fischer. Left: Sunny Chair Deverra (right) with her Beverly. Courtesy of brother and sister the National Public at Eastchester Housing Museum. Projects in the Bronx, NY, 1954. Courtesy of Sunny Fischer.

Why a public housing museum? More than 10 million people across the United States have called public housing home: Liquita Saulter, a laundry attendant from Altgeld Gardens in Chicago, IL; Carl Lee, a fitness trainer from Nickerson Gardens in Los Angeles, CA; George Staples, a mechanic from Dunlap Public housing has had an enormous Creek Village in Fayette, PA; and the and often controversial impact in Museum’s founding board members, our nation’s history. It has shaped Sunny Fischer, a cultural activist our definition of the public good — in from Eastchester Projects in the urban and rural communities alike — Bronx, NY, and Deverra Beverly, from where ordinary people’s lives are af- the ABLA Homes in Chicago, IL. fected by shifting national priorities.

Former housing residents also include The Museum will be a place to public officials such as Supreme share these stories of hope and per- Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and sonal achievement, paired with President Jimmy Carter, and cor- those of struggle, resistance, and porate leaders such as Starbucks resilience. We need the NPHM — founder Howard Schultz and former to honor the histories of everyday Xerox CEO Ursula Burns. Performers people and places and also to welcome like Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, a different future. Through arts Elvis Presley, Thelonius Monk, Ramsey and culture, the Museum will archive Lewis, Mary J. Blige, Queen Latifah, and share these stories, and create Jay-Z, and Chaka Khan and sports opportunities for visitors to under- stars like NBA’s Tony Allen and baseball stand and engage in innovative public star Kirby Puckett are among the policy reform in order to reimagine alumni whose experiences growing up the future of our communities, our in public housing shaped their lives. society, and the places we call home. Chicago’s Cabrini-Green: The last high-rise building was demolished in 2011. Courtesy of In These Times. the U.S. have been the U.S. have been thousands public of the preeminent issues Since the 1990s, housing units across demolished. Housingdemolished. class, and race, region. ourof time, cutting is oneinsecurity of across boundaries of

Chicago’s Cabrini-Green: The last high-rise building was demolished in 2011. Courtesy of In These Times.

CaptionKitchen ingoes the here Jane for Addams inner photo.Homes, circa 1940s. Courtesy of the Chicago Housing Authority. Three uniquelyThree restored the present day, con- the national politics andthe national politics from to the NewDeal Exhibitions shape them. shape housing experience housing experience the nation’spret public necting the intimatenecting lives of diverseof families to culture that helped apartments willapartments inter-

Chicago’s Cabrini-Green: The last high-rise building was demolished in 2011. Courtesy of In These Times. Chicago has built some of the largest and most significant public housing developments, which many — from new Americans and senior citizens to young families and artists — have called home.

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Image, above: Reverend Marshall Hatch (left) and his eight siblings are natives of Chicago’s West Side. Courtesy of the Hatch family. A living cultural experience “The entire Hatch The Homes were named family is excited after the Nobel Prize-winning peace that the Museum is becoming a activist and social reformer who reality. We want founded the Hull-House Settlement. others to under- stand how living Designed by John Holabird, one of in public hous- Why Chicago? the nation’s most respected archi- ing shaped our lives, created More than any other city, Chicago is tects at the time, the complex show- family unity, at the heart of an international dia- cased a new vision for housing poor and established logue about public housing’s founding and working class people in need of a strong, vibrant community for aspirations, its tumultuous history, homes. The Addams complex was everyone.” and its continued promise. Chicago, home to tens of thousands of a di- Rhoda Hatch with some of the largest, most am- verse, working-class families for more bitious, and architecturally diverse than six decades. Vacant since 2002, Image, below: Harold Medor (right) was public housing projects, is a micro- at the urgent requests of residents, raised in the cosm of the national story. Chicago is the Chicago Housing Authority lead- Jane Addams Homes. also an international hub for innova- ership agreed to save one building Years later, he met his wife Inez tion, cutting-edge museums, creative from demolition for the new museum. Turovitz, one of placemaking, civic dialogue, and the the first residents of the Jane Addams ongoing struggle for social justice — and Exhibitions and programs will be Homes when they NPHM will help lead the way by push- designed to encourage the public to opened in 1938. Courtesy of the ing the boundaries at these challeng- discover, learn, and build a more Medor family. ing and important intersections. just nation through a robust civic life. Designed by John Holabird, one of the nation’s most respected architects, the Jane Addams Children playing among the Edgar Miller animal sculptures the Jane of in Addams the courtyard Homes, circa 1940. Homes showcased the nation’s new vision for housing poor and working class families. Photo by Peter Sekaer. byPhoto Peter Congress, Library of LC-DIG-ds-03659.

- Bringing public art home The enchanting govern- ment-funded Edgar Shown Burnham The here: Woodlawn at Park by site design, NPHM Shigley landscape for architect. by Photo Scott site design group.

Miller animal sculptures Children playing among the Edgar Miller animal sculptures the Jane of in Addams the courtyard Homes, circa 1940. that once formed the focal point for com- munity life will be beautifully restored and, will restored artworks The among sited be native plants in a new courtyard.

after years in storage, Sekaer. byPhoto Peter Congress, Library of LC-DIG-ds-03659. returned to their original location at the Jane Addams Homes.

Children playing among the Edgar Miller animal sculptures in the courtyard of the Jane Addams Homes, circa 1940. Photo by Peter Sekaer. Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ds-03659. Roof South Ada Street National Public Entrepreneurship Housing Museum Hub (2) 1 Roof deck Inspired by stories Center for the of resilience and 1 Study of Housing survival, the Entre- and Society (4, 9) preneurship Hub at The Center will draw the National Public global scholars, Housing Museum lev- artists, designers, erages one of our and community community’s greatest thought leaders to resources: the his-

West Taylor Street explore the history tory of innovative of social and public entrepreneurship housing, consider that has been used as its successes and a strategy of sur- failures, and debate viving and thriving solutions to the for public housing Third floor most pressing issues residents. We aim to we face. launch the next gen- 2 Entrepreneurship 4 Center for the eration of socially Hub Study of Housing 2 4 Oral History responsible entre- and Society Archive and recording preneurs. The Hub ren read and studied while learning 3 Museum offices studios (6) is made up of three main pillars: Social about Martin Luther King’s housing The Museum’s core Justice Business collection is an activism on the West Side of Chicago, School, offering archive and assem- free workshops illuminate the cultural and political blage of stories that that imagine a just mine the rich and context of residents. 3 economy for the complex historical 21st century; Open developments of Hours, offering pro public and publicly Visitors will learn about the intense bono consulting subsidized housing in political struggles over the New Deal’s to public housing America. The general resident-entrepre- Housing Act of 1937 which creat- public and our com- neurs; and a work- Second floor munity members will ed public housing as we know it and er-owned cooperative come to better under- museum shop. The Hub President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 5 stand the value of an 5 Contemporary art 8 Demand the emphasizes community, 9 archive — the history “Second Bill of Rights” which includ- gallery impossible! interdependence, it documents, the 6 Oral History 9 Center for the and the common good ed “the right of every family to a 6 cultural products it Archive and Study of Housing in order to advance creates and dissemi- decent home;” recording studios and Society sustainability and nates, and the poli- strengthen the city’s 7 Hatch Family cies the stories will the role of urban renewal, red- 7 economic, social, apartment, help to shape and and cultural fabric. lining, and racism that have shaped 196Os/7Os influence. The Museum is well positioned public housing demographics since to have the country’s its inception; 8 largest collection of oral histories and and how efforts at racial desegre- stories of public housing residents. gation, political pressure, and Ground floor cost cutting led to the demolition 12 of distressed high-rises and the 1O Lobby 14 Storytelling space displacement of tens of thousands 13 1O 11 11 Public programming 15 Family apartment, of families. space 195Os 12 Museum 16 Turovitz-Medor store co-op Family apartment, 14 Tours of the Museum will begin and 193Os/4Os 13 Architectural 17 Exhibits and galleries end in a storytelling space where encounters 17 Edgar Miller Three restored apartments are the museum educators, many of whom animal courtyard 15 core of the Museum. Site-specific will be former and current public 16 exhibitions with historic artifacts housing residents, will have a unique and countless personal stories will role as provocateurs and prompt interpret the nation’s public housing visitors to consider how aspects of experience from the time of the daily domestic life connect to issues Lower level New Deal to the present. The Rizzi such as the politics of land use, the 18 Collections open family Christmas Tree provides a geography of race and class, and the storage glimpse into life in Little Italy cele- way public and private sectors 18 brating holidays and adapting to a interact in our democracy. changing neighborhood; Inez Turovitz Medor’s kosher kitchen tells import- A contemporary art gallery and ant stories about Jewish community space for participatory art projects around historic Maxwell Street; and and activities will bridge the divide the Hatch family bookshelf, filled between the arts, culture, and inno- with the classics that all eight child- vative public policy. Jane Addams Homes, 2017. Courtesy of Aaron Barlow. The MuseumThe is asite site that links the links that the site urgent issues. social historically significant past with today’s most of conscienceof — a

Jane Addams Homes, 2017. Courtesy of Aaron Barlow.

Future NPHM storytelling space. to catalyze acivically the Museum’s exhibitions Storytelling, art, art, Storytelling, for social justicein for social Programming spaces willspaces build on housing and beyond. community engagement entrepreneurship, and engaged publicengaged to strive

Jane Addams Homes, 2017. Courtesy of Aaron Barlow. For my mother, living in public housing meant having her first truly kosher kitchen — one “I learned so much Image, above: Raymond about the power of “Shaq” McDonald. stories as a student Below: Shaq leading an never touched by pork. in the NPHM Oral NPHM walking tour. History Summer School. As a longtime Cabrini Inez Turovitz Medor, retired bookkeeper, Jane Addams Homes, 1938–41 Green resident and activist, I use my new skills as an oral historian to speak truth to power, and to document the history of public housing to inform our future.” Raymond “Shaq” More than 49,000 visitors have been McDonald welcomed to programs and exhibits that include: Housing as a Human Right: Social Construction, part of the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial; Women’s Rights are Human Rights, challenging gender inequality and stereotypes about people living in poverty; Origins The Sound, The Soul, and The In the late 1990s, public housing res- Syncopation, an exhibition about the idents began to dream about many musicians who have emerged creating a museum to preserve their from public housing; collective voices and memories, ; and the histories of public housing Shelter!: Architecture is Activism across the nation. 20 Years Later: A Journey through the Years with Alex Kotlowitz and They wanted their children and Pharaoh Rivers; grandchildren, and the public at large, the first mayoral candidate forum to know more about their place on public housing in more than three in the American experience and the decades; public policies that helped shape their families. a Youth Advisory Council of members from several Chicago public housing They believed that the stories of pub- communities, formed to assist in the lic housing residents — told in their curation of museum exhibits and own words — would resonate strongly programs, participate in field trips to with a wide audience across Chicago, colleges and cultural institutions, the nation, and the world. and develop skills in leadership, advo- cacy, and healthy lifestyles; Civic leaders, preservationists, histor- training the next generation of oral ians, cultural experts, and many historians through our Oral History others joined with residents to help in- Camp with an intergenerational corporate the Museum in 2007. And group of public housing residents; since then, NPHM has offered trans- formative programs that connect and compiling an oral history of cur- the past with contemporary issues of rent and past public housing residents social justice and human rights. from across the country. Racine Courts on Chicago’s far South Side, 1952. Photo by Robert Natkin.

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