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Woodlawn Trustees, Inc. Records, Group I 2424.I Woodlawn Trustees, Inc. records, Group I 2424.I This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on September 14, 2021. Description is written in: English. Describing Archives: A Content Standard Manuscripts and Archives PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library Woodlawn Trustees, Inc. records, Group I 2424.I Table of Contents Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 4 Historical Note ............................................................................................................................................... 4 Scope and Content ......................................................................................................................................... 6 Arrangement ................................................................................................................................................. 11 Administrative Information .......................................................................................................................... 11 Related Materials ......................................................................................................................................... 12 Controlled Access Headings ........................................................................................................................ 12 Collection Inventory ..................................................................................................................................... 12 Administrative records .............................................................................................................................. 12 Corporate vision and mission ................................................................................................................. 13 Evolution of the corporate structure ....................................................................................................... 15 Directors and officers ............................................................................................................................. 16 Minutes of directors' and trustees' meetings .......................................................................................... 17 Correspondence ....................................................................................................................................... 18 Organizations of interest to Woodlawn ................................................................................................. 19 Real estate and housing ............................................................................................................................. 20 "Flats" ...................................................................................................................................................... 21 Citizens Housing Corporation (CHC) .................................................................................................... 33 Brandywine Hundred .............................................................................................................................. 37 Parks ........................................................................................................................................................ 58 Leases and deeds .................................................................................................................................... 65 Financial records ....................................................................................................................................... 66 Ledgers and journals ............................................................................................................................... 67 Financial records, journal entries, audits, and check stubs .................................................................... 69 Staff wages and benefits ......................................................................................................................... 72 Legal issues ............................................................................................................................................... 72 Woodlawn's Tax Exemption Revoked ................................................................................................... 74 Woodlawn's Housing Policy Challenged ............................................................................................... 76 du Pont v. Woodlawn Trustees, Inc ....................................................................................................... 78 Public relations and communications ....................................................................................................... 80 Slides and photographs ........................................................................................................................... 80 Newspaper clippings, brochures, and accolades .................................................................................... 81 Reports, studies and pamphlets ................................................................................................................. 84 - Page 2 - Woodlawn Trustees, Inc. records, Group I 2424.I Research and comments about Woodlawn and studies prepared for the Woodlawn Trustees ............... 84 Materials relevant to conservation and preservation of open space ....................................................... 85 - Page 3 - Woodlawn Trustees, Inc. records, Group I 2424.I Summary Information Repository: Manuscripts and Archives Creator: Woodlawn Trustees, Incorporated Title: Woodlawn Trustees, Inc. records, Group I ID: 2424.I Date [inclusive]: 1880-2005 Date [bulk]: 1901-1995 Physical Description: 56 Linear Feet Language of the English . Material: Abstract: The Woodlawn Trustees, Incorporated, is a non-profit real estate development firm incorporated in Delaware on December 12, 1918, by textile manufacturer William Poole Bancroft (1835-1928). Their records include charters, minutes, officer lists, directors' correspondence, real estate records, property maps, reports, drawings and specifications and newspaper and journal articles on the history of the Trustees and of the Bancroft family. ^ Return to Table of Contents Historical Note The Woodlawn Trustees, Incorporated, is a non-profit real estate development firm incorporated in Delaware on December 12, 1918, by textile manufacturer William Poole Bancroft (1835-1928). It subsumed Bancroft's earlier, for-profit venture, The Woodlawn Company which operated from 1901 to 1926. The Trustees are responsible for maintaining affordable housing in the city of Wilmington and for the orderly development of large tracts of suburban land, mostly located in Brandywine Hundred between Concord Pike and the Brandywine Creek and running north from Rockland Road into Delaware County, Pennsylvania. William P. Bancroft was a founding member of Wilmington's Board of Park Commissioners and donated a large block of family land for Rockford Park. Bancroft was concerned about the orderly growth of cities and convinced that the city would soon outgrow its boundaries. He thus began to buy large tracts of farm land north and west of the city, which he intended to be developed in a planned, rational manner, with ample allowance for parks and other open space. In order to carry out these operations, he formed The Woodlawn Company in 1901. The company's first activities were within the city limits, where it - Page 4- Woodlawn Trustees, Inc. records, Group I 2424.I built and rented the "Woodlawn Flats," blocks of row houses and apartments for working people between 1903 and 1914 and the Bancroft Parkway from 1912 to 1932, a tree-lined residential street with a wide planted median running north-south on the west side of town. To carry out his larger goal of orderly growth after he was gone, Bancroft placed his land in trust. Local charitable organizations were to hold stock in the trust and use the income from real estate development to fund their activities. Active development of the rural properties was put on hold by the Depression and World War II, but thereafter the Trustees constructed a number of housing developments, including Alapocas, Woodbrook, Sharpley, Edenridge and Tavistock. Other land was banked by being leased for farming or as parkland. However, the Trustees discovered that the only way to subsidize their low-cost rental housing in the city and to remain solvent was to seek profits like any commercial developer. This meant constructing conventional suburban tract housing developments and strip malls aimed at middle class buyers. This tension between the founder's vision and commercial reality came out in the open during the 1960s, compounded by contermporary developments in the Civil Rights movement. Although the Trustees bought out the failing Citizens Housing Corporation, which provided low-cost housing for African Americans on the city's east side, its suburban developments included the customary segregationist restrictive covenants. Pressure for change primarily came from the Wilmington Monthly Meeting of Friends, which sought to hold the Trustees to the founder's Quaker beliefs, and from Martha Ann du Pont, who sued the Trustees in 1972 to 1974 on the grounds that their refusal to sell a suburban house as a home for neglected children constituted racial discrimination. During the same period,
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