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The Northwoods Historic District in DeKalb County, Georgia consists of five adjoining residential neighborhoods, including Northwoods, Fleetwood Hills, Gordon Hills, Gordon Heights and Sequoya Woods. The Northwoods, Gordon Hills and Gordon Heights neighborhoods are all located within the city limits of Doraville, Georgia, and Sequoyah Woods and Fleetwood Hills are located in unincorporated DeKalb County.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=Doraville City Limits )〕 The district was developed in the 1950s and 60’s and consists of approximately 530 acres with a total of 922 historic/contributing resources.〔 On June 2, 2014 the Northwoods Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places.〔 〕 The district is significant because it is an intact example of midcentury and contemporary architecture in Georgia.〔 The district was developed to provide affordable homes that met VA and FHA requirements and other amenities for middle-class workers in nearby industries, including the General Motors automobile factory Doraville Assembly, Delta, Lockheed and others.〔Georgia State University, Single Family Residential Development in DeKalb County, Georgia, 1945-1970. Atlanta, GA 2010 (“Single Family Development”), p. 79.〕 As a planned use development, the district serves as an early example of a mixed-use development, with schools, churches, offices and homes all located within the district.〔 The Northwoods Area Neighborhood Association sponsored the nomination for recognition, and the Heritage Preservation Program at Georgia State University prepared the nomination materials and conducted the supporting research, interviews and community meetings as well as gathered and preserved a number of historic documents and pictures.〔 ==Architecture== After initially developing some plain style ranches in the south-western portion of the district, the primary developer of Northwoods, Walter Talley, hired Georgia Tech architects Ernest Mastin and John Summer to design a variety of contemporary homes and floor plans.〔 When switching from the plain style ranch house to the more contemporary designs, Tally was initially met with skepticism from lenders. The Providence Institute for Savings made one of the initial loans to Tally, but required that Tally build five conventional houses along with five of the more unique contemporary houses designed by Mastin and Summer to limit the lender’s perceived risk.〔 With strong demand for the contemporary designs, lenders soon gave Tally the flexibility he needed to develop Northwoods using a variety of contemporary designs.〔 This focus on both design and cost are clearly reflected in an early advertisement promoting “Houses of Smart Design and Superior Constructions” in Northwoods for prices between $13,350 to $15,300 ($118,000 to $135,000 in today’s dollars).〔 Tally, Mastin and Summer used contemporary and mid-century modern design features to ensure both the affordable pricing and the high quality that appealed to DeKalb County’s burgeoning middle class. Mastin and Summer drew significant inspiration from contemporary designs in California, and they found ways to incorporate many contemporary design features into the district’s modest homes.〔 One notable and unique architectural feature in the district is the use of brick from the foundation up to the window sills of many homes with other materials from the window sills to the roofline. This feature was designed to balance buyers’ desire for brick with the goal of affordability.〔Single Family Development p. 72.〕 With designs inspired by the successful Northwoods neighborhood, the other neighborhoods in the district (Gordon Hills, Gordon Heights, Sequoyah Woods and Fleetwood Hills) are generally consistent in design and share many of the same architectural features as the Northwoods neighborhood.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Northwoods Historic District」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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