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Roanoke Apartments

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Total Action Against Poverty announced plans to fully renovate and modernize the facility while keeping its historic appearance intact. Costing an estimated $ 27 million to complete, with nearly $ 9 million coming from historic and low-income housing tax credits made available from its inclusion in
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Originally providing residence to Roanoke's working class, today the complex is noted for the diversity of its residents. In 1975, Southeast Asian refugees were housed at the apartments beginning a trend of the facility to serve as residences for refugees displaced to Roanoke. Today the complex is
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Completed in 1950, the complex was conceived and constructed to house the families of working class World War II veterans. Upon its completion, this became the largest apartment complex within the city of Roanoke. The overall layout of the complex reflects the principles of the
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the register, the first refurbished building was complete in September 2007. Upon its completion in 2009, the overall units will be reduced from 250 units to 201 units.
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style developed in the early 1950s. Today the complex is noted for its ethnic diversity with its residents representing a wide array of religious and ethnic groups.
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The buildings themselves exhibit streamline moderne architectural style in their form and details. These elements include horizontal banding of the brickwork,
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with the complex being set back from the main streets and the extensive landscaping and use of existing vegetation throughout the complex.
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After being placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006, the local
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home to both working-class blacks and whites in addition to refugees from
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National Register of Historic Places in Roanoke, Virginia
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panels and flat concrete canopies at the entrance areas.
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register

Roanoke Apartments is located in Virginia
Roanoke Apartments is located in the United States
Roanoke, Virginia
37°15′56″N 79°58′7″W / 37.26556°N 79.96861°W / 37.26556; -79.96861
06000759
apartment
National Register of Historic Places
Raleigh Court
independent city
Roanoke
Virginia
U.S.A
brick
streamline moderne
Garden City Movement
glass block
Somalia
Liberia
Sierra Leone
Albania
Bosnia
Afghanistan
Cuba
Sudan
Haiti
Iraq
non-profit

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