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The $760,000 Lucy D. Slowe Re sidence Hall, first government con structed hotel for Negroe women, this week was helping to relieve the crowded housing conditions oc cassioned by the influx of war wor kers to the Nation's capital. Op ened less than 10 months after groundbreaking ceremonies, it is one of Washington's quietest resi dential sections at Third and U. Streets, N. W. Built by the Defense Housing Corporation and named for the first Negro dean of women at Howard University, the Lucy D. Slowe Re sidence Hall offers modern and comfortable accomodations to 322 Negro women. Within ten days of its opening on December 5, more than two score war workers had already taken up residence there and more were moving in daily. Occupancy of the 299 outside rooms, 22 of which are double, is confined t Negro women war wor kers who have come to Washing ton since July 1, 1941. Each room is completely furnished and maid service is provided once a week. Included in the rates of $7.00 per week for single room and $6.00 and $6.50 per person for a double room are many facilities for war workers and their guests. These include a fully equipped recrea ttion room, a spacious lounge, a comfortable lobby, a fountain room for leisure hour snacks, and a cafeteria which will soon furnish a well balanced nourishing meals at nominal costs. In addition the three story brick building has basement laundry fa cilities with ironing rooms on each floor and valet shop and beauty salon for the residents. Managing director of the Lucy D. Slowe Residence Hall is W. Spu rgeon Burke, former business man ager of the U. S. Veterans Hospi tal at Tuskegee, Ala. He will also serve as managing director of Le Droit Hall, a residence building for male war workers now under con struction in the same neighbor hood.
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Jackson Mississippi Enterprise
Jackson, Mississippi, US
Sat, Jan 02, 1943
Page 5
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