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The Russian Village District comprises 15 folk architecture style houses and was built by Konstanty ("Steve") Stys, a Polish (not Russian) immigrant, and others during the Great Depression.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Indian Hill Blvd. )〕 It is located at the intersection of South Mills Avenue and East Cucamonga Avenue in Claremont, California. Although the street addresses are in Claremont, portions of many of the parcels in the district lie within the city of Montclair in San Bernardino County.〔Snowiss, Leo M., ''Russian Village'', National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form, National Park Service, 1978〕 The historic district was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. ==History== Konstanty Stys (1894-1961〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Oak Park cemetery tombstone listing S )〕) was born in Poland, immigrated to the United States and settled in Youngstown, Ohio. He became a steelworker, married and started a family. Stys and his family came to California in 1921 and lived in Pomona. He then moved to Claremont and found work in construction. He bought the land on the east side of Mills Avenue and began building his houses. The local residents nicknamed these houses the "Russian Village", assuming that Stys came from Russia.〔 Stys and the other people who built homes in the district had no formal training in the design and construction of houses. Only one house in the district was designed by a professional architect.〔 The homes were built of local field stones from the alluvial plains around Claremont, as well as salvaged and recycled materials including the sides from railroad cars, items taken from the wreckage from the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, and materials from wrecking yards〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Indian Hill Blvd. )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Claremont's Russian Village Isn't Russian After All )〕〔Russian Village, Claremont CA Squidoo.com〕 Many of Stys's friends were unemployed during the Great Depression and several lost their homes. Stys sold off portions of his land for low prices, often asking for no down payment, and helped them build inexpensive houses out of salvaged and recycled materials.〔 A satellite of Russian Village is the present-day Cask'n'Cleaver restaurant in Cucamonga, originally an orchard house designed and built by Stys. 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「Russian Village District」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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