Frankfurt color slides 1959-61 - Photo #20

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2235 Platenstraße. This is the standard design for Army housing for families of noncomissioned and company-grade officers in Frankfurt and many other installations in Germany: three stories + attic; three entrances and three stairwells with two apartments per stairwell per floor, one on each side, so eighteen families per building. Every apartment has a balcony with a big picture window, and every apartment has windows on at least two sides. The apartments on each end of the building have three bedrooms and two baths; the other ones have (I think) two bedrooms and one bath. There's also a basement with lockable storage rooms for the tenants. There were other forms of housing for the higher ranks, up to and including private houses for the families of generals.