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Hancock Village

File / Documentation
Name

141123_sv.jpg

Size

2.26 MB

Format

JPEG

Checksum (MD5)

c02ee16948a103c105b324d79f4645f7

Creator(s)
planner: initial site plan by Olmsted Brothers (American, 1898-1961), construction firm: Ring Engineering Co. (American, 20th century), developer: John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company (American, founded 1862)
Time period
other date: development approved, 1946
Location
Site: Brookline (Massachusetts, United States)
Cultural context
American
Description
Superblock plan for garden village of duplex apartments, developed to meet postwar housing needs.
general view, woman with a rake outside an apartment entrance, 1987
Work type
Housing development
Medium
brick
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Image
Rights
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, photograph by Julie Johnson
Access rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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