Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 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 ...
Levittown houses in 1958. After World War II, America's post-war prosperity and baby boom had created a crisis of affordable housing, [1] especially for returning veterans. . Levitt & Sons chose an area known as Island Trees near Hempstead, Long Island, as the site for a huge building project for housing these vete
Levittown Shop-a-Rama, the 1955 Levittown Shopping Center in Tullytown was a 60-acre L-shaped pedestrian mall at the edge rather than the center of Levittown, [23] with two strips of stores faced the 6,000-car parking lot with a courtyard that had green spaces, benches, and entrances to the stores. [23]
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.
Some people might like to live over a hole in the ground, aka a "basement", but Levitt and Sons had a more innovative idea -- radiant floor heat.
"Levittown was a miracle," Pulte said at the time, according to a company biography. "He did so many things speedy-fast, production-wise. After I saw this, I knew mass production could be done ...
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 ...