Hilton Village by John V Quarstein

Hilton Village by John V Quarstein

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Hilton Village by John V Quarstein

Established in 1918, Hilton Village was the first public housing project built in the United States. Spurred on by Newport News Shipbuilding president Homer Ferguson, it was created to house shipyard workers during World War I. The village was the city's first planned community and its first National Register of Historic Places district. Hilton's distinctive cottage-style architecture, reminiscent of an English village, is one of the first examples of the New Urbanism and Garden City movements in America. Along the tree-lined streets are homes and shops that might have been pulled from a Dickens novel. The vision of the leaders who crafted Hilton Village--the shipyard's Ferguson, Harvard University town planner Henry Hubbard, and world-renowned architect Francis Joannes--remains apparent.
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ISBN 13 9781467127967
ISBN 10 1467127965
Title Hilton Village
Author John V Quarstein
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Arcadia Publishing
Year published 2018-04-16
Number of pages 160
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.