Mill Community Record Bridgeport
FIND ‘MILL COMMUNITIES’- Community Name (Common)
- Gateway Village Historic District
- Address or Location
- Roughly bounded by Waterman St., Connecticut Ave. and Alanson Ave., Bridgeport
- Specific Location
- Roughly bounded by Waterman St., Connecticut Ave. and Alanson Ave.
- County
- Fairfield
- Historic Designation
- Associated Mill Complexes
- n/a
- Architectural and Historical Information
Number of Existing Buildings
Ten.
Dates of Construction
1916-1920
Housing Types
Brief Description
For description see National Register application: http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/90001429.pdf.
The Gateway Village development was built as worker housing during the First World War by the Bridgeport Housing Company. The project was one of the first examples of wartime industrial housing erected in the city and it was developed before the Bridgeport Housing Company partnered with the United States Housing Corporation on several large-scale residential projects that were completed over the course of the war. The development consists of ten two-and-a-half-story red brick Tudor Revival rowhouses designed by the architectural firm of Mead and Schenck, a collaboration identified as the earliest known partnership of female architects in New York City.
