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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 ...
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 ...
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 Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology at Penn built the complex in the 1920s on Red Cedar Hill in Bristol Township. ... As William Levitt was building Levittown to include the hill in the ...
A new plant was recently built in Kentucky and the company plans to move most of the Mississippi operations of Levi's to the Bluegrass State.
Levittown's real estate market is hot, with 22 Levitt-built houses selling for $500,000 or more in the last six months but signaling the end of the affordable starter home in a place that defined ...
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.
During the 1960s, when Levitt was leading the company, Levitt & Sons developed properties beyond the American mainland, such as Levittown, Puerto Rico; Lésigny, France in Seine-et-Marne; and Mennecy in Essonne, France. [11] In the early 1960s, the company built a 5,000-house community in north central New Jersey called Strathmore-at-Matawan.