Post-war housing project.

Post-war housing project.

City planning -- Watertown (Mass.).; World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Watertown (Mass.).; Public housing -- Massachusetts -- Watertown -- History.; Public housing -- Watertown (Mass.).; Veterans -- Housing -- Watertown (Mass.).; Ford, Robert Mark -- 1925-1944.;

Model of a post-war housing project in West Watertown, Robert Ford Road. The Town set about building veterans a colony of 168 brick units to the west of Lexington Street, near the more expensive private apartments of Fairfield Gardens. Robert Mark Ford joined the Army on September 8, 1943 and was killed in action June 2, 1944.

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