Mid 1940s through 1960s
(Retro/Boomer) Neighborhoods

A selection of Residential Neighborhoods & Subdivisions that were built primarily post WW-II through the 1960s.

The following paragraph is excerpted from David J. Russo, American Towns: An Interpretive History, Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, 2001, pp. 84-85.

In town after town across the continent after World War II, newer developments were often laid out in curvilinear fashion. It was jarringly different from the older grid pattern of the streets in the older parts of town, creating a kind of fault line in a town's design. In Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, in the late twentieth century, curvilinear streets with large lots were laid out along the highway leading out of town. In Cazenovia, New York, post-World War II subdivisions were similarly designed to the north of town in hilly, heavily wooded terrain. In Hudson, Michigan, which experienced little growth late in the century, only one very small subdivision of curvilinear streets lay on the town's northeast periphery. But in Millersburg, Pennsylvania, new sections located east of the heights above the town contained spacious lots on curving streets. In Mount Gilead, Ohio, a looser grid was added to its northwest section. In Rockville, Indiana, curvilinear streets in various subdivisions were added incongruously to an older grid pattern. In Hermann, Missouri, a grid co-existed with several subdivisions of "curvilinear grids" dating from the 1960s and 1970s, a kind of cross between the tow types of layout. In Southern towns, major crossroads were often filled in with streets platted between the interstices, but curvilinear street developments extended beyond the early grids, as was the case elsewhere. [Notes: (pp307) But this was not the case in all towns. In Chilton, Wisconsin, subdivisions consisted of extensions of various grids. Similarly in Grundy City, Iowa, the town's single grid of streets was extended in both north and south directions. And Petersburg, Illinois, continued to have a relentless grid pattern. Jakle, Bastian, and Meyer, "Common Houses in America's Small Towns," 23-63.]