MOR-1075

Dr. Hamilton T. Boswell holding model and architect Morton Rader (left) holding sketch of housing development

1964-01-16

SFP 39

San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

Box P77, Folder: Boswell, Dr. Hamilton T.

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Newscopy: Negroes blazed the trail in San Francisco today for model housing for elderly citizens of low income. Ground will be broken Sunday, it was announced, for Jones Memorial Homes, Inc., with 32 apartments unique as The first Negro construction plan in San Francisco redevelopment. The first federal loan recipient of federal loan for senior citizens housing in San Francisco. Front money-over $32,000, and lost if the project failed-was put up by Negro Methodists who opened the project to all races, all faiths. The Rev. Hamilton T. Boswell, minister of Jones Methodist Church, called it "an historic event," and added: "Back in 1954, Jones Methodist Church had to decide whether we would evacuate or participate in Western Addition redevelopment.

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