Post-war housing project.
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- 1949
- Description
Site of a post-war housing project on Robert Ford Road in 1949. The Town set about building veterans a colony of 168 brick units to the west of Lexington Street, near the more expensive private apartments of Fairfield Gardens. Robert Mark Ford joined the Army on September 8, 1943 and was killed in action June 2, 1944.
- Partner
- Digital Commonwealth
- Contributing Institution
- Watertown Free Public Library
- Collection
- Watertown Houses
- Subjects
- City planning--Watertown (Mass.)
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Watertown (Mass.)
Public housing--Massachusetts--Watertown--History
Public housing--Watertown (Mass.)
Veterans--Housing--Watertown (Mass.)
Ford, Robert Mark--1925-1944 - Type
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- Photographs
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- Post-war housing project.. 1949. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/rv0434036. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
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- (1949) Post-war housing project.. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/rv0434036
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- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/rv0434036>.