Albion Flats Explained

Albion Flats
Coordinates:	37.9757°N -87.5696°W
Architect:	Shopbell & Company
Architecture:	Prairie School
Added:	July 1, 1982
Area:	less than one acre
Refnum:	82000093

Albion Flats (sometimes referred to as "Albion Terrace" or simply "The Albion") is a housing unit in downtown Evansville, Indiana. It was designed by the architectural firm Shopbell & Company and built in 1911 as part of a trend to reform crowded living conditions for the working class. It was named after Albion Fellows Bacon, a famed advocate of improved public housing standards.^[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD) . Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology . Searchable database. 2016-08-01. Note: This includes Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Downtown Evansville MRA. 2016-08-01. Douglas L. Stern and Joan Marchand. PDF. October 1981., Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Downtown Evansville MRA. 2016-08-01. Douglas L. Stern and Joan Marchand. PDF. October 1981., and Accompanying photographs