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Garden City, a town built to a plan
1869
Garden City, New York
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Alexander Turney Stewart, who had made a department-store fortune, bought a stretch of the Hempstead Plains and laid out a whole town on it at once, wide streets, a hotel, a cathedral, houses for rent only, the landlord keeping the land. It is one of the first planned suburbs in the country, and the model it set is the one Levittown industrialised eighty years later.
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