![]() ![]() ![]() On a high clearing stood, until recently, his home, in ruins, but recognizable as the seventy-five-room Georgian mansion (six central furnaces) it had been in another era. To the east of the highway lies Crosswicks Farms, a large irregular tract of some two hundred acres of rolling countryside-the long unsaleable estate of a millionaire stock-broker, the late Clement B. The story told here is, of course, only one story-but in its main outlines it is characteristic of several of the thirty or forty veterans’ cooperatives that have struggled or died a-borning since the war and it is a significant part of a larger problem-that of discriminatory trends in housing, which make the whole area one of the chief sources of present-day prejudice in the United States.Ī few miles north of Philadelphia on route 611 is the Township of Abington, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. ![]() Hunt here presents a case history in veterans’ housing-the story of a plan for a cooperative project on the outskirts of Philadelphia which uncovered some of the ugly tensions that so often lie beneath the apparently placid surface of American suburbia. ![]()
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