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Levittown is the name of several large suburban housing developments created in the United States (including one in Puerto Rico) by William J. Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons. Built after World War II for returning white veterans and their new families, the communities offered attractive alternatives to cramped central city locations and ...
Aerial view of Levittown c. 1959. Most of the land on which Levittown is built was purchased in 1951. [6] Levitt and Sons only built six models of houses in Levittown, all single-family dwellings with lawns: the Levittowner, the Rancher, the Jubilee, the Pennsylvanian, the Colonial and the Country Clubber, with only modest exterior variations within each model.
Levittown, Puerto Rico, built in the 1960s, was a Levitt project. [23] In 1966, Levitt & Sons built a development in Somerset, New Jersey, and in 1966–72, it built another development in Greenbriar, Virginia. [21] In 1967, the company developed Montpelier, Maryland, near Laurel. [citation needed]} Levitt & Sons also built internationally.
The community has come to the aid of a Levittown family who lost their home in a devastating fire on New Year's Eve. A GoFundMe campaign is nearing its stated goal of $18,000, but the damage from ...
Photos capture the devastation following an explosion and fire at a home in the Snowball Gate section of Middletown on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024.
During the 20th century, Long Island (and the US as a whole) saw a pattern of mass suburbanization. [1] Levitt and Sons – one of the most famous real estate firms of the 20th century – built many housing developments across Long Island (and the US, as a whole), including Levittown, New York – which is widely considered as being America's first mass-produced suburb, and also as the ...
A fire has caused heavy damage Friday morning to a building that houses the Bowling Green office of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul as well as a local law firm. Fire crews were called to the building on ...
The Politics of House and Home: Implications in the Built Environment of Levittown Long Island. Thesis (Ph.D.) --State University of New York at Stonybrook. OCLC 21550472. Kelly, Barbara Mae (1993). Expanding the American Dream: Building and Rebuilding Levittown. Albany: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-7914-1287-3. OCLC 25094119.