Mill Community Record Bridgeport
FIND ‘MILL COMMUNITIES’- Community Name (Common)
- Remington City Historic District
- Address or Location
- Roughly, Bond, Dover, and Remington Sts. and Palisade Ave., between Stewart and Tudor Sts., Bridgeport
- Specific Location
- Roughly, Bond, Dover, and Remington Sts. and Palisade Ave., between Stewart and Tudor Sts.
- County
- Fairfield
- Historic Designation
- Associated Mill Complexes
- Architectural and Historical Information
Number of Existing Buildings
Seventy-six single & multi blocks.
Dates of Construction
1916
Housing Types
Brief Description
For description see National Register application: http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/90001426.pdf.
The Remington City development was built as worker housing during the First World War by the Remington Arms - United Metallic Cartridge Co. (#3897, #3892). The project was one of the first examples of wartime industrial housing erected in the city and it was developed concurrent to additional local efforts conducted by the Bridgeport Housing Company and United States Housing Corporation. The development was completed in 1916 and consists of 40 two-story red brick quadraplex blocks, 24 one-and-a-half-story wood-frame single-family and duplex residences, nine two-story multi-family red brick rowhouses, and three large three-story apartment blocks. All of the buildings bear Colonial Revival or Neoclassical styling and were designed by the New York-based architectural firm of Hiss and Weekes.
