Immigrant Housing
This file appears in: Building a City for Workers
Here is an example of typical housing for immigrants on Gary’s South Side. Compared to the housing in the First Subdivision, these buildings were not nearly as well-built. The rickety or ramshackle construction came from builders seeming to have used whatever was at hand for these homes. These dangerous conditions for workers and their families existed at least as late as 1920, fourteen years after the start of the construction of the mill and the city.
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…