Village Creek (Norwalk, Connecticut)

	Village Creek
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	Entrance to Village Creek, April 28, 2012
Location	Roughly bounded by Village Creek, Hayes Creek and Woodward Ave, Norwalk, Connecticut
Coordinates	41°4′44″N 73°25′6″W / 41.07889°N 73.41833°W
NRHP reference No.	10000493
Added to NRHP	July 26, 2010

Village Creek is a coastal community in the South Norwalk neighborhood of the city of Norwalk, Connecticut which was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2010.^[1] It is also the name of a creek upon which the community is built. Managed and maintained by the VCHOA, residents are entitled to access a private beach, marina and tennis courts.

Established in 1949, the neighborhood is historically distinctive for its efforts to maintain a balanced racial composition, a practice enforced by the home owners association, at a time when deed covenants restricting ownership by race and ethnicity were common.^[2] The neighborhood was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Announcements and actions on properties for the National Register of Historic Places for August 6, 2010". Weekly Listings. National Park Service. August 6, 2010. Retrieved August 14, 2010.
^ "Site of the Month: Village Creek Historic District". Connecticut Freedom Trail. Retrieved July 31, 2018.

Additional sources

Eiseman, Alberta (August 4, 1996). "Keeping a Postwar Dream Alive". New York Times. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
Bisbort, Alan (June 1, 2011). "Village of Light". Connecticut Magazine. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
Friedan, Betty (March 1955). "We Built a Community for Our Children". Redbook, cited in Horowitz, Daniel (2000). Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism. University of Massachusetts Press. p. 311. ISBN 9781558492769. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
"National Register, Selected projects". Heritage Resources. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
Prevost, Lisa (September 24, 2010). "A Planned Community Stays the Course". New York Times. Retrieved July 31, 2018.