It encompasses 241 contributing buildings in a primarily residential section of Portsmouth.

It was developed between 1918 and 1920 as a planned community of Colonial Revival style single family residences.

It was developed by the United States Housing Corporation as a result of the rapid influx of workers at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard during World War I.

It was the first wartime government housing project constructed exclusively for African-American residents.

This article about a property in Portsmouth, Virginia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.