It encompasses a small residential development built between 1916 and 1920 to provide housing for workers in war-related industries in the city.

It is a well-preserved example of one of several such developments made in the city with funding by the United States Housing Corporation, a government agency.

It consists of 12 three-story red brick Colonial Revival buildings, set around small quadrangle-like parks.

The buildings are relatively uniformly styled, with cast stone trim elements, brick parapets, and flat roofs, with some window openings occupied by projecting window bays to provide visual interest.

The siting and building design was a collaboration that included R. Clipston Sturgis, Arthur Shurtleff, and Skinner & Walker, and embodied elements of the then-fashionable Garden City movement of residential design.