Mill Community Record Fairfield
FIND ‘MILL COMMUNITIES’- Community Name (Common)
- Grasmere Village - United States Housing Corp. Housing
- Address or Location
- 50 Plum Street, Fairfield
- Specific Location
- Along Grasmere Avenue and Plum Street, south of Kings Highway and north of Fairfield Avenue/Post Road.
- County
- Fairfield
- Historic Designation
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n/a
- Associated Mill Complexes
- n/a
- Architectural and Historical Information
Number of Existing Buildings
Roughly 50.
Dates of Construction
1917
Housing Types
Brief Description
Known as Grasmere Village, this development was built as worker housing during the First World War by the United States Government under the auspices of the United States Housing Corporation. Includes some 50 red brick detached and semi-detached one-and-a-half- and two-story residences, which are of several standardized Colonial and Tudor Revival designs created by architect R. Clipson Sturgis, associate architect A.H. Hepburn, and planner A.A. Shurtleff. After the war’s conclusion on November 11, 1918, the United States Housing Corporation sold Grasmere Village and its 82 other housing developments in 26 states to individual homeowners and housing associations.
