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| − | [[Image:AragonCourt1940.jpg|thumb|right|Under construction in August 1940]] | + | [[Image:AragonCourt.jpg|thumb|right|The gateway to Aragon Court at [[Ninth Avenue]] and [[Romana Street]].]] |
| − | [[Image:Admiral Mason Park.jpg|thumb|right|Aragon Court behind [[Admiral Mason Park]] in September 1959]] | + | [[Aragon Court]] is an upscale housing development in [[downtown Pensacola]]. |
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| − | '''Aragon Court''' was a low-income housing project that was built in [[1940]] near [[downtown Pensacola]]. Opening during [[segregation]], Aragon Court was originally for white residents only, as opposed to the all-black [[Attucks Court]] project 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 site formerly housed a low-income housing project of the same name, which opened in [[1940]] along with [[Attucks Court]]. Originally, Aragon Court served as low-income housing for white residents, while Attucks Court was designated for black residents. |
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| − | Some of the residential units were demolished 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.
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| − | [[Category:Aragon]] [[Category:Housing projects]]
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