Group of children at Barry Farms Housing Development.

ID: 4849 ~ Source: Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress. ~ Creator: Photographer: Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc. ~ Date: April 1944.
This file appears in: Barry Farm Dwellings
Group of children at Barry Farms Housing Development.
This file appears in: Barry Farm Dwellings

Built by DC’s Alley Dwelling Authority in 1942-1943, Barry Farm is historically significant as a center of Black activism in the 1960s. Named for original owner James Barry, a Washington city merchant and councilman who purchased the land in the…