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[[Image:AragonCourt1940.jpg|thumb|right|Under construction in August 1940]]
[[Image:Admiral Mason Park.jpg|thumb|right|Aragon Court behind [[Admiral Mason Park]] in September 1959]]
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'''Aragon Court''' was a low-income housing project that opened was built in [[1940]] near [[downtown Pensacola]]. Built Opening during [[segregation]], Aragon Court was originally for white residents only, as opposed to the all-black [[Attucks Court]] project built constructed on West [[Cervantes Street]] at the same time.To make way for the project, many of the buildings in the [[Hawkshaw]] neighborhood were razed (including those in the infamous [[Luke's Alley]]), displacing residents and separating the remainder of the neighborhood from the city core.<ref>Judith A. Bense, editor. ''Hawkshaw: Prehistory and History in an Urban Neighborhood in Pensacola, Florida''. UWF Office of Cultural and Archaeological Research, 1985.</ref>
The project was Some of the residential units were demolished in circa 1985 to provide parking for the [[Civic Center]]. In [[1998]] , the remaining residents were relocated and the buildings demolished to make way for the [[Wikipedia:New urbanism|new urbanist]] [[Aragon]] neighborhood. The land where the project
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[[Category:Aragon]] [[Category:Housing projects]]