Black Rock Gardens Historic District
Description and history
Black Rock Gardens is located in southwestern Bridgeport's Black Rock neighborhood, on 7 acres (2.8 ha) bounded by Fairfield Avenue, Rowsley Street, Haddon Street, Nash Lane, and Brewster Street. It consists of 12 three-story red brick Colonial Revival buildings, set around small quadrangle-like parks. Some of the buildings are connected to one another. The buildings are relatively uniformly styled, with cast stone trim elements, brick parapets, and flat roofs, with some window openings occupied by projecting window bays to provide visual interest. Entrance surrounds have neoclassical features including full entablatures.
The complex was built between 1916 and 1920 by the United States Housing Corporation to provide war-time emergency housing for workers in war-related factories, during World War I. The siting and building design was a collaboration that included R. Clipston Sturgis, Arthur Shurtleff, and Skinner & Walker, and embodied elements of the then-fashionable Garden City movement of residential design.
See also
- History of Bridgeport, Connecticut
- Black Rock Historic District
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Bridgeport, Connecticut
External links
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Steven Bedford and Nora Lucas (June 30, 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Black Rock Gardens Historic District / Black Rock Gardens / Black Rock Development". National Park Service.