Carver Courts — Historic Black Housing

Built in 1959 by the Lake Charles Housing Authority, Carver Courts is a 44-building public housing development spread across several blocks between Medora, Augustus, and N. Goos Boulevard. All single-story brick duplexes — 88 units total — designed in the low-density pattern that federal housing policy favored in the late 1950s. The development served Lake Charles's Black community during the era of legally enforced segregation, and the naming honored George Washington Carver. Carver Courts was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in 2018, recognized under Criterion A for Social History as a locally significant example of postwar public housing for Black residents in Southwest Louisiana. The development is still occupied and managed by the Lake Charles Housing Authority.