Houses for Hiroshima: The Legacy of American Peace Activist Floyd Schmoe

The exterior of the Schmoe House in Eba and its interior exhibition space. (© Dōune Hiroko)

A photo of Eba seen from Sarayama. (Courtesy Tomiko Y. Schmoe/Shumō ni Manabu Kai)

Nishimura Hiroko. (© Dōune Hiroko)

Floyd Schmoe. (Courtesy Maekawa Hiroshi/Shumō ni Manabu Kai)

Daisy Tibbs, left, and Emery Andrews haul supplies. (Courtesy Kitazawa Sumiko/Shumō ni Manabu Kai)

Japanese and American volunteers chisel beams. (Donated by Jean Walkinshaw/Courtesy Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum)

Schmoe, left, and Hiroshima Mayor Hamai Shinzō at a dedication of a commemorative stone lantern in Minamimachi on October 1, 1949. Honoring the Houses for Hiroshima project, the lantern bears the English message “That There May Be Peace.” (Courtesy Tomiko Y. Schmoe/Shumō ni Manabu Kai)

The lantern stands near the Heiwa Jūtaku municipal housing project, built at the same time as the Houses for Hiroshima. (© Dōune Hiroko)