Arthur Goodwillie. The rehabilitation of Southwest Washington as a war housing measure, a memorandum to the Federal Home Loan Bank Board.
1942. 11×8.5”, 60pp, several photos. Mimeographed. plan on complete renovation of a large area in SW, extending from E street to Virginia Ave then to South Capitol Street to I Street, then over to 4th Street, and back up to E.
- Provenance: Library of Congress, “Gift of the Author”. With the LC surplus/duplicate stamp on the rear wrapper. Original wrappers, staple bound, with a cloth-covered spine. This copy also has a carbon copy of the LC card catalog card for this work laid in. Very Good copy. $150 Worldcat locates 11 copies, all very advanced: UVa, Columbia, NYState, Harvard, Chicago, UCLA, Wisconsin, DC Public, LC, NYPL.
There is a considerable bit here on the DC Alley System and the social and engineering commentary on the housing that stood there (“Inside bathrooms, kitchen sinks, central heating and electric lights are luxuries of extreme rarity…service alleys are often blistered with garbage and other waste…”)
Goodwillie evidently helped to found Bend, Oregon, and had a major impact in the early development of that town, but left only a few years later, in 1909. He became a highly successful investment banker in Chicago….and “later joined the Franklin Roosevelt administration, supervising assets for the reconditioning program of the Homeowners Loan Corp.’s Midwest office in Chicago. He later wrote ”Waverly: A Study in Neighborhood Conservation,” a manual on urban renewal based on a Baltimore, Md., housing project .”–Julie Johnson, “A House with a Story to Tell”, in The Bulletin, 12/10/2006. At the time of the pamphlet Goodwillie was director of Conservation Service Home Owners’ Loan Corporation.
