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Hilton Village
Director Newport News Museums John V Quarstein
Hilton Village
Director Newport News Museums 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.
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | April 16, 2018 |
ISBN13 | 9781540228727 |
Publishers | Arcadia Publishing Library Editions |
Pages | 162 |
Dimensions | 170 × 244 × 11 mm · 462 g |
Language | English |