Did you know that there was a thriving black cooperative movement in Washington DC in the late 1930’s? The woman at the center of this...

Did you know there is a National Public Housing Museum based in Chicago? We've followed the progress of this fascinating organization for...

Did you know that Greenbelt began as a segregated community? Despite the fact that it was built by both Black and white relief workers,...

Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) is often described as the most widely acclaimed Black artist of the 20th century. Did you know that he...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his WPA (Works Progress Administration) commissioned the Federal Writer’s Project to interview...

Here are another couple of photos from the Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration Collection. These were taken by Arthur...

Joseph Arnold in his book, The New Deal in the Suburbs: A History of the Greenbelt Town Program 1935-1954, writes that there were several...

This photo of Black workers at the Greenbelt construction site is one of many taken by the photographers hired by the Resettlement...

Paul R. Williams was the other Black architect who worked on Langston Terrace Dwellings with Hilyard Robinson. He was born and was...

Langston Terrace Dwellings, which opened in 1938, was the DC area’s first federally funded public housing program and was built for low...

We’re doing a fact a day in honor of Black History Month - we hope you’ll follow along! Greenbelt planners realized probably c. 1936 that...

We’re doing a fact a day in honor of Black History Month - we hope you’ll follow along! The map above was discovered by Ben Fischler at...

We’re doing a fact a day in honor of Black History Month! We hope you’ll follow along! Early plans for Greenbelt included an area to be...

For Black History Month we’ll be posting a fact each day here on our blog. We'll put the same content on the Museum's Facebook and...

If it is 1948 and you are living in the New Deal planned community of Greenbelt, Maryland, you’ve got some options. Almost every New...

The holiday season in Greenbelt has always been a festive time, from when the first residents arrived in the experimental town in 1937 in...

Please note: We at the Greenbelt Museum recognize the complicated legacy of the Thanksgiving holiday as it relates to Indigenous peoples...

Since the first residents of Greenbelt were moving in just a little before Halloween, and the new town’s newspaper, The Cooperator,...

In accord with Greenbelt’s deep connection with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and keen interest in canines too, here is brief...

In a small community surrounded by trees and bejeweled with a lake, a swimming pool, picnic areas, playgrounds, tennis courts, ball...