Located northeast of Boston Avenue (United States Route 1) and west of Lakeview Cemetery, the development was built in 1918–20 to provide emergency housing for an influx of workers to the city's war production industries, and is a good early example of a Garden City movement subdivision.

[1] Lakeview Village is located on Bridgeport's East Side, occupying 21 acres (8.5 ha) on a collection of streets between Boston Avenue and Lakeview Cemetery.

All are built of red brick, and share a common architecture vocabulary of Colonial Revival styling, with recurring similarities in choice of roof shape, door and window orientation and placement, and the type of sheltering of the main entrance.

[2] Lakeview Village was designed by an architectural collaboration which included R. Clipston Sturgis, Arthur Shurtleff, and Andrew Hepburn.

The master plan, whose elements are still evident in the landscape, follow the precepts of the Garden City movement.