Chavis Heights (for black residents) and Halifax Court (for white residents) were built as some of the state’s first New Deal public housing projects, shortly after establishment of the U. S. Housing Authority in 1938. Deitrick’s design to provide “modern healthy homes” followed advanced current practice and was featued in Architectural Record in 1941. Deitrick’s plans for both complexes are in the Guy E. Crampton-William Henley Deitrick collection at Special Collections Research Center, NCSU Libraries, Raleigh, North Carolina.