We The People
Part of a series of sculptures depicting the Preamble to the US Constitution
Above the door to the original Greenbelt Elementary School
1937, Lenore Thomas
Indiana Limestone
Greenbelt, Maryland is a planned community built in 1937 as a part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. One of three Green Towns built during the Great Depression, the project put struggling Americans to work, provided much needed low-income housing in the Washington, D.C. region and was a bold experiment in town planning and cooperative living. Its first residents enjoyed modern homes, schools, a pool, a library and a town center complete with cooperative businesses and a movie theater all within walking distance in a utopian park-like setting.
We The People
Part of a series of sculptures depicting the Preamble to the US Constitution
Above the door to the original Greenbelt Elementary School
1937, Lenore Thomas
Indiana Limestone
Greenbelt, Maryland is a planned community built in 1937 as a part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. One of three Green Towns built during the Great Depression, the project put struggling Americans to work, provided much needed low-income housing in the Washington, D.C. region and was a bold experiment in town planning and cooperative living. Its first residents enjoyed modern homes, schools, a pool, a library and a town center complete with cooperative businesses and a movie theater all within walking distance in a utopian park-like setting.