a pdf file - Yorkship Village

Yorkshi
(Fairview) Cam
TOUR MAP
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2 Unit One
of A Kind
.o''9inal
By The Yorkship Village Historic Society of Fairview
Working With The Camden City Redevelopment Agency
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YORKSHIP SQAARE "original
construction 1918. Plannql by
archilects as focal point.
(I')
MEMORIAL MONUMENT Installed for WWII veterans in 1946.
Plaque for Korean & Viemam Wars.
(C, MEMORIAL TREE -Everytetl\
hee, planted in the memories of Mae
Shultz - community activist and
accomplisher.
(D) 3-STORy HOTEL -
1918
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Comer Alabama Road and Yo*ship
Square.
<EI 2-3 STORY APARTMENT'Building's original construction 1918.
$) 2.STORY BASINESS
BUILDItrr'G . Original construction
1918. 2nd floor
renovated to original by owner.
(G) 2829-2839 YORKSHIP RD. Notable porch column architecture.
(H' LATHEMN
CHARCE Original church built 1924 - on site.
church, at location, built 1959.
<1, 2805 TUCKAHOE ROAD -PreYorkship Village, era 1900.
Q) 2851 TUCKAHOE ROAD Notable original ftame house - 1918.
(K) 3001 TUCKAHOE ROAD -site
of National Garden Award.
(L') NEWEST VILLAGE HOUSE.
Built 1991. Sumpter & Niagra Roads.
Archite.turally similar to original.
{M' BAPTIST CHARCH.
Sumpler & Common Roads. Built
I918.
(N) FIRST SCHOOL HOUSE.
3025, 3027,3029 Essex Road. Built
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Used until Yorkship School built.
(O\ NICHOLAS VIRGILIO -world
renowned poet's home at 1092 Niagra
Road.
(P, WORLD WAR II HOUSAS -Built
during and after war for shipyard
workers & veteraDs of WWII
(Q' AUTO REPAIR BAILDINC.
Corner Collings & Tenflessee Rds.
Original maintenance garage 1918.
(R) YORKSHIP SCHOOL (Fairview) Elementary School - 1920.
Addition construcled 1922.
(st LC.A.C. SOCIAL CLAB.t250
Collings Road. Founded 1928.
Independent Citizens Athletic Club
G) r'aANClS X. MCGRAW Memoial monument WWII Medal of
Honor Awarded. Fairview resident.
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Enter Yorkship Village from either end of Collings Road. Proceed I
(Z) and (AA) to 0J), referring to text on the side of the map as you
flow you with the one-way streets. This tour can either be accoml
Areas where you can find parking are marked on the map with a (l
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N)
MALANDRA HALL -End ot
Rd. Built in l94l as
Union rtufl for New York Shipyard.
New Jersey
MAE SHULTZ MEMORIAL PARK
End of Malandra Hall. Monument
dedicated to community achiever.
(V)
1775 FARMHOASE SITE.
Vicinity of hockey rint, was
devastated by fire in 1976. Original
Sharp family.
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oLD MOVIE HOUSE -12',76
Rd. Built in l9l8 as
gymnasium for school. hter serverl
Collings
as bowling alley, then skaling rink.
(x) fiow sroREs
-1876-1898
Collings Rd. Original - 1918.
N) SAINT IOAN OF AnC -Collings
& Alabama. Original church
constructcd
1923. Now is a school. Present
church at Merrimac Rd.
(ZI FAIRVIEW LIBRARY.1503
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Collings Rd. Original l918 house.
NICHOLAS VIRGILIO
MEMORIAL
Tree planted on library property.
(l\A) IS9l COLLINGS ROAD Notable single structure. Built 1918.
(BB' 3211 ALABAMA ROAD.
original 19l8 construction. Built tbr
shipyard management family.
(ccl 3157 ATLANTA ROAD Nolable structure. Former home of
Judge Angelo Malandra.
(DD) 3014 CONSTITAT|ON ROAD
Built 1918. Retum oftop po.ch .ail.
{EE) METHODIST CHARCH Constructed 1924. Addirions 1940 &
1959.
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2818.20 CONSTITATION RD. Original 1918 stone architecture.
(CG't 2700 - 2900 CONGRESS AD. Not part of odginal village. Note
varying architecture - I-ate 1920s-70s.
(HH)
2952 CONGRESS ROAD
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Original 1918 stucco - renovated
1990.
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OLYMPIA ROAD -Notable
architecturc of this area.
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AMERICAN LEGION -Postlt
Ave. Built 1918.
2992 Mt. Ephraim
END OF TOUR
Yorkship Square [Point (A)]. Follow the guide map from (A) to
lo, to the points marked on the map. Following the guide will
lished by vehicle or by walking (or a combination of both).
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taurants , fart .food atul other
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Yorkship Village (known as Fairview today) is, historically, the nation's rrsr& d.erally-fundcd
planned communit!. yorkship Village was acknowledged ftr'stoicaLy significattt in 1974 by
acceptance on tbe Nalional and New lersey Stale Registers of Hisnic Places.
During the First World War, fighting ships were constructed in the Nerv York Shipyard at an everincreasing rate. As more and more shipyard workers came into the area to live, a housing shortage
developed. The U.S. Government contracted for more housing and assembled Urban Planners to
layout the village. These same planners that researched the architecture of Europe and were eager to
test their newfound ideas, were put to the task.
The concept ofa planned community came from Europe in 1918. The architectural theory was to
incorporate the ingredients that made the ideal self-contained cornmunity. Architects also used the
experience of studies about the expansion of urban housing and the need to provide a garden
environmenL These studies about European architecture were used to plan Yorkship Village as a
ganlcn sectian of the ciry.
Subsequently, Yorkship Village was the creation of architects that resulted in a newly constructed
village, reminiscent of an old English village, that appears to reach back further in history, yet
utilizes the innovative planning concepts of that era.
Fainiew today looks much as it did when the orig,inal constuction was completed in 1918-1919, As you tour
through the town, toke note of some of fue signirtcont architectuml features as indicoted below:
(t) Varrlrg sttuctutl llesiga,all und.r tn. lmbrell!
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X.rral.l0?., proridins
unitiuation
of$e villrge-
yct pemnring individu.l a.d
diiler.nl typ.s ol
T||o4tot! cotsnuctiot. r.epine the lillose lo ratun s.aL,
G) AtB4gedert o!
(4) Mrr'irg
sr..n,
\5) Tle godet
btuiigs
to one asothet, an efion
ro.ha.g.
the no.orooots pamuel
lin s of row hom.s
lhal
*.re comon dui.glb.
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olcone .rio..
ailordins an ever chansing visra br rrav.l.is.
efl*t:
pla.emedoflrees onpublic and pdval.land: cor,oasrnha..asofslassinthec.nterhh"d.
t6) lncl$lon ol.hurches, schools, sloqs, o4nne*s,
a hotel, cotuntunitr
\1) A lown squa4 (yor*shi, Square,), lhe lNal point ol th. villaSe wnh
(g VoOi\g btict\'otl potler$.
Crnn$iM
. part
(rs.d N
for tn. sarden
pmbably rhe resux of &e bricklayeF showing ofl - this
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Town Hall). and
arrLri. /i.As
and plann.d stoes rhat
bc rcl.vant 6.qaus. lhe
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as the
lompl.le sillc..rai..d.onnunny.
c.nterofatraclion for lh. lillos.B.
amhtic. ol wodd wai I qas sig..d on Nov.nb.r
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co.strctionofrhelillas.vasslillalahishpeak).Take.oreof$esablrendsonsoreol&eb;ukhous.srosc.thoindiliduoliz.dbrilkwo*paitmsrhxr,r.s.rin.i.l.s
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(9) ANhrecturctndn6: t*o bEdrcon rowhouses. semi d.rsch.d Mo and rhrce bsdroom housis. and
struclures buix olsolid biclivalk. Also included.re sru.qo.xterb. oler tireb;.lxnd lran houes,
(10) Nolcvorthy is tnc fad tnal
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Get Off At Exil I (Collinss*ood. Gloucener Cny). T.ivsl Towads Collingswood
ColliDss Rd. Tum
ftonKecs se Rd. To Ydklnp SqD&e-
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sinel. homes. TXpes of.o.srru.lion vaies vilh mosl
w.re inlend.d lor sure isory eaalot$e New YortShiplad.
DIRECTIONS TO YORXSEIP VI,I.IGEIFAIRVIDW)
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on
Frop RTE I 30 & S{t. Eobraio Are.:
Tu.. on Collings Rd.. Goi.g wes. Tur. Right On Alablna R!. To YorkshiP Squar..