Village Creek is a coastal community in the South Norwalk neighborhood of the city of Norwalk, Connecticut which was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2010.[1] It is also the name of a creek upon which the community is built. Managed and maintained by the VCHOA, residents are entitled to access a private beach, marina and tennis courts.
Village Creek | |
 Entrance to Village Creek, April 28, 2012 | |
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| Location | Roughly bounded by Village Creek, Hayes Creek and Woodward Ave, Norwalk, Connecticut |
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| Coordinates | 41°4′44″N 73°25′6″W / 41.07889°N 73.41833°W |
| NRHP reference No. | 10000493[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 26, 2010[1] |
Established in 1949, the neighborhood is historically distinctive for its efforts to maintain a balanced racial composition, a practice enforced by the home owners association, at a time when deed covenants restricting ownership by race and ethnicity were common.[2] The neighborhood was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.[1]
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edit- ^ a b c d "Announcements and actions on properties for the National Register of Historic Places for August 6, 2010". Weekly Listings. National Park Service. August 6, 2010. Retrieved August 14, 2010.
- ^ "Site of the Month: Village Creek Historic District". Connecticut Freedom Trail. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
- Additional sources
- Eiseman, Alberta (August 4, 1996). "Keeping a Postwar Dream Alive". New York Times. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
- Bisbort, Alan (June 1, 2011). "Village of Light". Connecticut Magazine. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
- Friedan, Betty (March 1955). "We Built a Community for Our Children". Redbook, cited in Horowitz, Daniel (2000). Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism. University of Massachusetts Press. p. 311. ISBN 9781558492769. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
- "National Register, Selected projects". Heritage Resources. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
- Prevost, Lisa (September 24, 2010). "A Planned Community Stays the Course". New York Times. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
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