page_title: Ida B. Wells Homes
section_title: Darrow Homes and Madden Park Homes
hierarchical_section_title: Ida B. Wells Homes / History / Darrow Homes and Madden Park Homes
caption_attribution_description: 511 E Browning Ave, Chicago, IL 60653
context_page_description: The Ida B. Wells Homes was a Chicago Housing Authority public housing project that was located in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. It was bordered by Dr. Martin Luther King Drive on the west, Cottage Grove Avenue to the east, 37th Street to the north, and 39th Street to the south. The Ida B. Wells Homes consisted of rowhouses and mid- and high-rise apartment buildings and were constructed for African Americans from 1939 to 1941. They were demolished beginning in 2002 and ending in 2011.
context_section_description: In 1961, the Clarence Darrow Homes were built adjacent to the Ida B. Wells Homes. In 1970, the last of the Chicago Housing Authority's high-rise housing projects, the Madden Park Homes, were built north of the Wells homes. The "three huge, contiguous projects" lined the northern edge of North Kenwood Park and Oakland.
caption: 2008 photograph of one of the Ida B. Wells Extension Homes buildings.
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