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United States Housing Corporation Historic District

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Architect
  
Hoppin & Koen

Area
  
8 ha

Added to NRHP
  
16 April 1990

NRHP Reference #
  
90000603

Year built
  
1919

United States Housing Corporation Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by Colman, Fuller, and West Pleasant Streets, and Jefferson Avenue, New London, Connecticut

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival, Queen Anne

The United States Housing Corporation Historic District is a residential historic district located on the west side of New London, Connecticut. It contains a relatively uniform collection of Colonial Revival houses, most of them built in 1919 and 1920 by the United States Housing Corporation, a United States federal government agency founded to provide housing for workers in strategically significant war-related industries. The development of this district was overseen by the noted landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. The district is bounded on the west by Colman Avenue, the south by West Pleasant Street, the east by Jefferson Street, and on the north by Fuller Street.

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 16, 1990.

References

United States Housing Corporation Historic District Wikipedia