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Article: Oak Park's Low-Cost Appeal
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 11, 1998
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A half-block from the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr.
Avenue and Irvington Street SW, the Oak Park apartments rest at the
crossroads of a glorious past and an uncertain future.
Luke McArthur, 59, has lived at Oak Park since a friend who
lived there showed him the complex in 1964. Although he still enjoys
living there, he said, surveying the lawns and buildings for signs
of neglect, he can look back to the time when Oak Park wasn't a
diamond in the rough, it was a gem.
"It was so nice, nice pretty trees, it was practically new at
that time," he remembered. McArthur, then newly married and living
in the Northwest D.C. home of his mother-in-law, immediately signed
on at Oak Park.