The Wendell O. Pruitt Homes and William Igoe Apartments, known together as Pruitt–Igoe (/ ˈ p r uː ɪ t ˈ aɪ ɡ oʊ /), were joint urban housing projects first occupied in 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

Nov 26, 2013 · Intended as a paradise, Pruitt-Igoe is remembered today as America’s most notorious housing project. “Modern architecture died in St Louis, Missouri on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 pm,” wrote...

Jul 29, 2011 · Pruitt-Igoe was built in 1954 as a solution to overcrowding in downtown St. Louis, which hit its population peak of around 850,000 people in 1950. Modernist architect Minoru Yamasaki...

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth is a 2011 documentary film detailing the history of the Pruitt–Igoe public housing complex in St. Louis, Missouri, and the eventual decision to raze the entire complex in 1976.

Jan 18, 2025 · In 1954, St. Louis saw the grand opening of the Wendell Pruitt Homes and William Igoe Apartments, collectively known as Pruitt-Igoe. This ambitious public housing project, designed by modernist architect Minoru Yamasaki, was hailed as a …

Apr 4, 2011 · Two decades later, and by then notorious, Pruitt-Igoe was a pile of rubble, imploded and bulldozed into history. What went wrong and why? That’s the subject of a new documentary film called The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: an Urban History. Directed by Chad Freidrichs, the film will have its St. Louis premiere this Saturday at the Missouri History Museum.

May 15, 2017 · In its place was to be built a collection of 33 modular 11-story apartment towers designed by Minoru Yamasaki of Hellmuth, Yamasaki, and Leinweber. Occupying 57...

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development and the St. Louis residents who called it home.

May 3, 2011 · Less than 20 years after its construction, the buildings of Pruitt-Igoe were torn down beginning in 1972. The new documentary, ‘The Pruitt-Igoe Myth,’ widens the blame. Director Chad...

Dec 19, 2009 · The Pruitt-Igoe Housing Project was located in the predominantly African American and economically depressed Desoto-Carr neighborhood just north-west of downtown St Louis, Missouri. By 1956, the project totaled 33 high-rise buildings that consisted of the Wendell Oliver Pruitt Homes (1,736 units) and the William L. Igoe Apartments (1,134 units).