A New Town along the Susquehanna

A New Town along the Susquehanna. Perry Point Village. , Perry Point Village exemplifies the standardized American company town design of the late 1910s. The site plan was completed in just one month by the noted New York architecture firm of Mann and MacNeille following the philosophies of the Garden City Movement. The village was designed to embrace the picturesque feeling of the adjacent Susquehanna River. Streets were laid out with avenues parallel to the river so that cross streets would receive breezes directly off the river, while a heavy growth of trees landward concealed views of the ammonium nitrate plant. Along the river, land was utilized as public parks, and recreation grounds were incorporated into the site plan., What was the Garden City Movement? , Introduced by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the late 19th century Britain, the Garden City Movement called for planned communities which emphasized a suburban feeling, with curvilinear streets lined with trees and electric sidelights, large landscaped front yards and service areas located away from primary views. The philosophies aimed to create the ideal town with a primary focus on incorporating green space, a shift from gritty, dense urban development that had overtaken cities during the Industrial Revolution.