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SOUTH (FRONT) ELEVATION, BAS RELIEF 'TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION' - Greenbelt Community Building, 15 Crescent Road, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL))
Photographer
Jack Boucher  (1931–2012)  wikidata:Q6111338
 
Alternative names
Jack E. Boucher; Jack Edward Boucher
Description American photographer and architectural photographer
HABS, HAER and HALS photographer, National Park Service
Date of birth/death 4 September 1931 Edit this at Wikidata 2 September 2012 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Buffalo Holy Cross Hospital
Work period from 1949 until 2009
Work location
Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia; Atlantic City Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q6111338
Title
SOUTH (FRONT) ELEVATION, BAS RELIEF 'TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION' - Greenbelt Community Building, 15 Crescent Road, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD
Description
Thomas, Lenore; Boucher, Jack E, photographer; Lavoie, Catherine C, historian; Price, Virginia B, transmitter
Depicted place Maryland; Prince George's County; Greenbelt
Date Documentation compiled after 1933; 1989
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS MD,17-GRBLT,1-10
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  • Significance: The Greenbelt Community Building is a focal point of activity for this important, early planned community. It was first used as a combination community meeting hall and school building and later exclusively as a school. Greenbelt is a product of the Great Depression of the 1930s. It is a cooperative planned community, conceived and constructed by the Resettlement Administration, an outgrowth of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal idealism. Greenbelt was an early experiment in social and economic welfare. The intent was to provide affordable rental housing for low- to moderate-income groups in an environment that encouraged self help through a cooperative living program, as well as provide jobs (construction) for those on relief. The Greenbelt Community Building is architecturally significant as a good surviving example of the 1920s-1930s Art Deco/Art Moderne styles. Its sleek, streamlined form, with minimal architectural ornamentation, exemplifies the styling of the period. Furthermore, the artistic depression-era bas relief sculptures which line the facade are both architecturally and historically significant. Carved by Works Progress Administration (WPA) artist Lenore Thomas, they reflect the social and economic concerns of the post-depression era, an interest in the common man and the pursuit of democratic ideals. They are both optimistic and forward-looking.
  • Survey number: HABS MD-979
  • Building/structure dates: 1937 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1968 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/md1174.photos.043309p
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