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Hancock Village

File / Documentation
Name

141047_sv.jpg

Size

1.78 MB

Format

JPEG

Checksum (MD5)

e61b1b1698be1d2ab44776bb51a28c86

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, view of one apartment front with child walking to door, 1987
Work type
Housing development
Medium
brick
Keywords
Type
Image
Rights
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, photograph by Shakeel Hossain
Access rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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