10th Street Historical District

A rephotographic survey of the 10th Street Historic District in Oak Cliff, Dallas that revisits images from the 1992 National Register of Historic Places application of the community. 10th Street, a Freedman’s Town established by formerly enslaved people after the Civil War, is now marked by urban decay and demolition, driven by policies like Dallas’s City Ordinance No. 27922: an amendment passed in 2010 and repealed in 2024 that allowed for the demolition of residential structures under 3,000 square feet within historic districts. Though framed as a code enforcement measure, the policy disproportionately affected Black historic neighborhoods like 10th Street.