Jersey Homesteads Historic District
FrontOrganized as an agro-industrial Jewish cooperative community by the Provisional Commission for Jewish Farm Settlements in the United States, led by Benjamin Brown (1885-1939), Jersey Homesteads was one of approximately 100 communities built by the Roosevelt Administration in the 1930s. Among the other members of the Provisional Commission were Rabbi Stephen Wise and Albert Einstein. The design of the community, with interior and exterior greenbelts, reflects the influence of Sir Ebeneezer Howard, pioneer of the English "garden city" planning concept, while the design of the buildings by architects Alfred Kastner and Louis Kahn incorporates principles developed by Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus in Germany in the 1920sBackHM Number | HM1T5X |
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Placed By | Borough of Roosevelt - Jersey Homesteads Historic District Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation |
Marker Condition | No reports yet |
Date Added | Thursday, July 21st, 2016 at 1:02pm PDT -07:00 |
UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 18T E 544682 N 4452080 |
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Decimal Degrees | 40.21795000, -74.47486667 |
Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 40° 13.077', W 74° 28.492' |
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 40° 13' 4.62" N, 74° 28' 29.52" W |
Driving Directions | Google Maps |
Which side of the road? | Marker is on the right when traveling South |
Closest Postal Address | At or near 1 N Rochdale Ave, Roosevelt NJ 08555, US |
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