 William Jarid Levitt (February 11, 1907 - January 28, 1994), is the real-estate developer widely credited as the father of modern American suburbia. He certainly did not invent the building of communities of affordable single-family homes within driving distance of major areas of employment; yet his innovations in providing affordable housing popularized this type of planned community in the years following World War II. Image File history File links William_Levitt_TIME_cover. ...
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Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. ...
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Background
As President of Levitt & Sons, the real-estate development company founded by his father Abraham Levitt near the start of the Great Depression, William Levitt oversaw all aspects of the company but design of the homes they built. Design duties were handled by William's brother Alfred. A real estate developer (American English) or property developer (British English) makes improvements of some kind to real property, thereby increasing its value. ...
Dorothea Langes Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California, centering on Florence Owens Thompson, a mother of seven children, age 32, in Nipomo, California, March 1936. ...
Prior to World War II, Levitt & Sons built mostly upscale housing in and around Long Island, New York. After returning from the war, during which he served in the Navy as a lieutenant in the Seabees, William Levitt saw a need for affordable housing for the returning veterans. Mercator projection of Long Island Long Island is an island in New York, at 1,377 square miles (3567 km²) the largest island in the continental United States, and with 7. ...
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The official motto of the Seabees, the United States Navy Construction Battalions, is Construimus, Batuimus—We Build, We Fight. ...
Construction of Levittown, New York Levitt & Sons chose an area known as Island Trees near Hempstead, Long Island as the site for its huge building project after the war. The Company named it Levittown. Levitt's innovation in creating this planned community was to build the houses in the manner of an assembly line. In normal assembly lines, the workers stay stationary and the product moves down the line. In Levitt's home-building assembly line, the product (houses) obviously could not move. Hempstead is the name of some places in the State of New York, in the United States of America: Hempstead (village), New York Hempstead (town), New York This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Groups of workers would descend on a new, empty street. The slab laying group would go down the street laying concrete slabs for house after house, 60 feet apart. Other construction groups would work in the same manner, adding their part to the house lot by lot. The result was high-quality, nearly identical houses that were built for subtantially less than what they would have normally cost.
Residents started moving into Levittown, New York in 1947. Houses sold for between $8,000 and $12,000 with monthly payments as low as $57, a low price even by 1947 standards. The residents would come to be known as Levittowners. Levittown is a census-designated place located on Long Island in Nassau County, New York. ...
Other Levittown Projects Levitt went on to plan and build another community of more than 17,000 homes in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, which saw its first residents in 1952; It is still known today as Levittown, Pennsylvania. A third "Levittown" of 12,000 houses was built in southern New Jersey, although it has since reverted to its former name of Willingboro, in part to avoid confusion with the neighboring Levittown community in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Levittown, Puerto Rico, built in the 1960s, was also one of Levitt's projects. Bucks County is a county located in the state of Pennsylvania. ...
Aerial view of Levittown, Pennsylvania circa 1959 Levittown, Pennsylvania is a census-designated place (CDP) and suburban community located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, within the Philadelphia metropolitan area. ...
Willingboro Township highlighted in Burlington County. ...
Levittown, Puerto Rico, part of Toa Baja, its one of the largest urbanizations in Puerto Rico. ...
During the late 1950s, Levitt and Sons also developed the commmuity known as "Belair at Bowie," in Bowie, Maryland. In 1957 they acquired the historic Belair estate, home of Maryland's colonial Governor Samuel Ogle and his Belair Stables. In 1959 the community was annexed by Bowie. He also Built in Palm Coast, Florida, Richmond, Virginia and Fairfax, Virginia. Motto: Nickname: Map Political Statistics Founded 1870 Incorporated 1916 Prince Georges County Mayor G. Frederick Robinson Geographic Statistics Area - Total - Land - Water 41. ...
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Robert L. Ehrlich, the 60th and current Governor of Maryland. ...
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Belair Stud was an American thoroughbred horse racing stable and breeding farm founded by Provincial Governors Samuel Ogle and Benjamin Tasker in 1737 in Maryland in Colonial America near what is now the city of Bowie. ...
1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Annexation is the legal merging of some territory into another body. ...
Palm Coast is a city located in Flagler County, Florida. ...
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Fairfax is an independent city located within the confines of Fairfax County in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ...
Levitt & Sons was sold to ITT International Telephone and Telegraph in 1968 for a reported $90 million. Levitt subsequently lost much of his wealth in unsuccessful investments. This article needs cleanup. ...
Timeline Levittown is a census-designated place located on Long Island in Nassau County, New York. ...
Aerial view of Levittown, Pennsylvania circa 1959 Levittown, Pennsylvania is a census-designated place (CDP) and suburban community located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, within the Philadelphia metropolitan area. ...
Willingboro Township highlighted in Burlington County. ...
Levittown, Puerto Rico, part of Toa Baja, its one of the largest urbanizations in Puerto Rico. ...
Somerset is a census-designated place located in Somerset County, New Jersey. ...
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Quotes - "No man who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do." (1948)
External links - Overview of Levitt's architecture by Jon Blackwell
- Time magazine 100 of 20th century
- 1950 Time Magazine cover story
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