Levittown in Long Island, New York, was built in 1947 as a suburban community for America's growing families. Here's what it ...

Welcome to Willingboro. You won't find many basements here. It's a feature of Levitt-built houses in the township that may cause people unfamiliar with the place to raise eyebrows. Let us explain. You ...

Levittown's real estate market is hot, with 22 Levitt-built houses selling for $500,000 or more in the last six months but signaling the end of the affordable starter home in a place that defined the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 1950s Levitt Rancher as it looked after an electrical fire set it ablaze in 1972. It was razed and rebuilt with an unusual ...

The idyllic Long Island suburb of Levittown developed by William J. Levitt in the late 1940s made history. His experiment gave war-weary veterans the chance to own a home in the first mass-produced ...

What will it take for America to build enough homes so that they become affordable again? Edward Berenson’s excellent “Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia” ...

The beauty and functionality of asbestos sidewalls With a visit to Levittown NY and an interview with Norman Denny vice president of materials for Levitt Sons ...

William Levitt’s legacy goes beyond any one office or apartment building. The developer’s single-handed creation of Levittown, Long Island, right after World War II laid the groundwork for modern-day ...