Ken-Watt Court. 1954

Neighborhood Garden Association of Philadelphia
Urban gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Urban gardening -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
United Neighbors Association (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hawthorne Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Martin Luther King Plaza (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Planters Garden Club
Ken-Watt Community Club

Ken-Watt Court was located at Kenilworth and Watts Streets demolished along with other South Philadelphia blocks to make way for the high-rise housing project Hawthorne Square (later renamed Martin Luther King Plaza) imploded in 1999. In 1953-1954, the United Neighbors Association, court residents, and the Neighborhood Garden Association, collaborated on Court improvements that included replacing outside privies with indoor plumbing and at the request of the Ken-Watt Community Club declaring Ken-Watt as a Garden Court. Mount: Planters

Bush-Brown, Louise, 1897-1974

1954

Philadelphia (Pa.)

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Louise Bush-Brown Collection (2020.20)

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Louise Bush-Brown Image Collection

Gift; Mr. James Bush-Brown ; 1985

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