Better Homes in America Guidebook

Front cover of a Better Homes in America Guidebook with an illustration of a home.
Item sets
Fairfax County: A History of Housing Inequality, Exclusion, and Erasure (Images)
Site pages
An Incompatible Racial Element
Title
Better Homes in America Guidebook
Date Created
1926-04-25
Additional note
Fairfax County hosted two BHA demonstration houses in the 1920s, introducing local officials, civic and parent-teacher groups, garden and landscape club members and the general public to an innately race-based vision of the "perfect" American home.
Type
Still Image
Media
Front cover of a Better Homes in America Guidebook with an illustration of a home.Better Homes in America Guidebook