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The Poor Houses

Henry M Hope

"The Poor Houses history stands as one of the finer traditions of Western civilization. One moves back, and back, from the American South, to New England, to Old England, the European Continent, the abbeys, the Christians of the late Roman Empire. The end of the journey is Jesus Christ Himself. "- C...

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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

It was mentioned in relation to the Chicago Housing Authority and the design of Grace Abbott Homes, where the main subject of the podcast lived.

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And Chicago historian and architecture expert named Devereux Bowley Jr. describes Grace Abbott homes directly in his 1978 book on Chicago public housing, the poor house saying, 'more than any project...

— Episode: 266 - Rave After Rave

Episode: 266 - Rave After Rave

It was mentioned in relation to the Chicago Housing Authority and the design of Grace Abbott Homes, where the main subject of the podcast lived.

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And Chicago historian and architecture expert named Devereux Bowley Jr. describes Grace Abbott homes directly in his 1978 book on Chicago public housing, the poor house saying, 'more than any project built in Chicago to that date, which was nineteen fifty five, the overall feeling of Abbott homes is forbidding and the human scale completely lost.'

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