47th St. and Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois. County/parish: Cook.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 13, 1981. NRIS 81000218.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Rosenwald Court Apartments (also known as Rosenwald Courts or the Rosenwald Apartments; formerly known as Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments) is a large apartment building located in the Bronzeville neighborhood of the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is located at East 47th Street and South Michigan Avenue, just one block east of the former Chicago Housing Authority's Robert Taylor Homes site. In total, the building is made up of 421 apartments, a large landscaped courtyard, and retail space at street level. It was originally built as non-governmental subsidized housing and is considered to be among the earliest mixed-use housing developments.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892334