tiny boxes

Whilst tracing buildings to create years and years and years of figure ground diagrams illustrating the massive loss of housing stock in Cleveland I have been confounded by these little guys (the boxes in the middle-ish of the image) showing up in aerials from 1951, and disappearing by 1959.  They have been eating away at my brain for a few weeks now, and I happened to type the right thing into google today.

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They are temporary veterans housing.  These developments were built all over the Cleveland area in 1946 for World War II veterans, and then taken down in 1958.  Another interesting piece from this is that after they disappear from aerials, most of the land becomes public housing development.  Did the same people stay in the area? 

Neato.