Mill Community Record Bridgeport
FIND ‘MILL COMMUNITIES’- Community Name (Common)
- Seaside Village Historic District
- Address or Location
- E. side of Iranistan Ave. between South St. and Burnham St., Bridgeport
- Specific Location
- n/a
- County
- Fairfield
- Historic Designation
- Associated Mill Complexes
- n/a
- Architectural and Historical Information
Number of Existing Buildings
Fifty-eight.
Dates of Construction
1916-1920
Housing Types
Brief Description
For description see National Register application: http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/90001424.pdf. Seaside Village was built as worker housing during the First World War by the United States Government under the auspices of the United States Housing Corporation and in collaboration with the Bridgeport Housing Company. The development includes 58 one-and-a-half- and two-and-a-half-story red brick multi-family residences and rowhouses, which are of a Colonial Revival design created by architect R. Clipson Sturgis, associate architect A.H. Hepburn, the architectural firm of Skinner and Walker, and planner A.A. Shurtleff. After the war’s conclusion on November 11, 1918, the United States Housing Corporation sold Black Rock Gardens and its 82 other housing developments in 26 states to individual homeowners and housing associations.
