I remember the buildings when they were rented out as apartments in the 1970's, and up until around 1990, when they were vacated. It is now the rear parking lot of 290 Anderson condominiums, as someone else posted. This was a small African-American neighborhood with a great many children playing in the street and on the front yards at all times. It was about 5 or 6 consecutive houses which were 2 or 3 family structures, just on the mid-section of that block (south side), plus the older apartment directly across the street was also heavily African-American. It was a little enclave, not continguous with the African-American neighborhood on the eastern block of Hamilton Place. Probably containing about 100 people. Two of the properties on Clinton Place that went all the way back to Lookout fenced off the rears with ugly barbed wire fences.
The apartment building went condo and all the units "turned over", resulting in some changes there. And the houses that were occupied by African-Americans were purchased and surgically removed, to the exact house, for the construction of the parking lot at 290 Anderson Street. Michael Brower was the builder. A large luxury condo, the Prospect-Ashley was constructed nearby on the same block. Given all the changes, all the barbed wire fencing was then taken down.
