Fairview Historic District, Camden

  • Also Known As: Old Cooper Farmstead
  • Also Known As: Yorkship Village

  • Vicinity: Roughly bounded by Newton Creek, Crescent Blvd, Mt Ephraim Ave, Olympia and Hull Rds.
  • Neighborhood of Fairview, Camden in Camden, NJ
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Historic District

In 1917, during World War I, the Emergency Fleet Corporation purchased land in what was then Haddon Township to be used for the housing for the workers at the New York Shipyard. The shipyard was the center of activity for this portion of New Jersey for the construction of ships to be used in the war. Although the actual building of the ships did not occur in the Fairview district, the industry is significant to the area because Fairview was built with the sole purpose of housing these workers and their families.

Building was begun in July of 1917 and occupancy commenced in the fall of 1917. Fairview was annexed to the city of Camden shortly after its completion. The city undertook the construction of the elementary school, Yorkship Elementary School. Ownership of the village remained in the hands of the US government through the Emergency Fleet Corporation until this corporation was dissolved in 1922. The United States Treasury Department then took over management and finally sold the village at public auction in 1921. - NRHP Registration Form


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1917/00/00 Electus D Litchfield Architect Litchfield designs Yorkship Village, a community of 1000 homes near NY Shipbuilding of Camden, NJ, as a place of light rooms and clean yards, with playgrounds and amusement fields, a place of beauty and cleanliness.
1917/00/00 Charles E Cutler Supervising Architect C Cutler is hired as the supervising architect for Yorkshire Village in Camden, New Jersey, the largest government-sponsored, wartime housing project produced during the Great War.
1917/05/01 United States Shipping Board Developer The ground is broken on a new community for New York Shipbuilding Corp's workers and their families with the United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation funding the estimated $11 million cost of construction.
1917/10/00 New York Shipbuilding Corp Workers Housing In the fall of 1917, shipwrights and their families begin occupying Yorkship Village.
1918/07/08 Haddon Township cedes Yorkship Village to the City of Camden.
1921/01/00 At the end of the war the Emergency Fleet Corp begins selling properties, with 1,579 houses, 59 apartments, 13 stores, a hotel, a gymnasium and miscellaneous buildings unsold at the start of 1921.
1924/00/00 United States Dept of the Treasury Owner By the end of Fiscal Year 1924, the US Treasury Dept has sold all but twelve houses, the sewage system and plant, water system, bridge, public squares and parks.

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Particulars for Fairview Historic District, Camden:
Architectural Style American Colonial Revival
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Area of Significance Community Planning and Development
Sight Category Historic District
Criteria Historic Event
Area of Significance Industry
Historic Use Multiple dwelling
Owner Private
Historic Use Single dwelling
Facet of War War - Home Front



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 19th November 1974

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Fairview District
Registry Address: Roughly bounded by Newton Creek, Crescent Blvd., Mt. Ephraim Ave., Olympia and Hull Rds.
Registry Number: 74001157
Resource Type: District
Owner: Private, Local
Architect: Litchfield,Electus D.
Architectural Style: Colonial revival
Area in Acres: 256
Contributing Buildings: 1001
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Community Planning and Development, Industry, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1900-1924
Significant Year: 1917
Historic Function: Domestic
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling, Multiple dwelling
Current Function: Domestic
Current Sub-Function: Single dwelling Multiple dwelling

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