Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments

The Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments was a large non-governmental subsidized housing project in Chicago at East 47th Street and South Michigan Avenue. It was constructed in 1929 by philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, then president of Sears, Roebuck & Company. The housing project was modeled after the Dunbar Apartments built by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in 1926 in Harlem, New York City.^[1]

Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments received National Register of Historic Places designation in 1981.^[2]

Construction

Demise

Redevelopment

Other Uses

In 2010, filming for the 2011 film Transformers: Dark of the Moon was done on site. In the movie, the apartments doubled as part of the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the Ukraine, a rather harsh illustration of how far out of repair the apartments had become. ^[3]

See also

References

1. ^ Devereux Bowly, Jr.. "Subsidized Housing". The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago. http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1215.html. Retrieved 23 September 2009. 
2. ^ "Rosenwald(Michigan Boulevard Garden) Apartments". Chicago’s Seven Most Threatened Buildings. Preservation Chicago. Archived from the original on 24 September 2009. http://www.webcitation.org/5k1MsRSGr. Retrieved 24 September 2009. 
3. ^ "'Transformers' Back in Chicago". ABC 7 Local. ABC 7 Local. 26 July 2010. http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=7557120. Retrieved 2 August 2011. 

External links

• History Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartment and status as of 2003.