Carver Court is a historic housing development located at Foundry Street and Brooks Lane near Coatesville in Caln Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
[1][2] Federal authorities built Carver Court during World War II as public housing for African American steelworkers and families, who were critical to the wartime defense industry.
A former race track forming a rough ellipse became a landscaped cul-de-sac around a communal open space, lined with 89 units of one- and two-story homes.
[3] Influential Modernist architects Louis Kahn, Oscar Stonorov, and George Howe designed Carver Court alongside numerous other buildings in the Philadelphia area.
According to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in 2016, "Research to date suggests that Carver Court and Brandywine Homes were built as separate segregated housing developments due to the long-standing history of racial tension that existed in the Coatesville area.