Hungary Row
This file appears in: Building a City for Workers
Not all of the housing that the Gary Land Company built for the workers was palatial, or even pleasant looking. These plain, wooden frame, flat roofed buildings housed immigrant laborers in the northeast corner of the First Subdivision. Called “double dry goods boxes,” fifty of these housing units were built in total. It proved difficult to find buyers for these structures, as low-paid single male workers just wanted enough room for a bed.
This file appears in: Building a City for Workers
Building a City for Workers
The Gary Land Company’s First Subdivision covered the area from just south of the Steel Mill Entrance south to the Wabash tracks (9th Avenue), and from Tennessee Street west to Fillmore Street. In the First Subdivision, restrictions and controls…