Landmark Watch is a major resource for the certification and preservation of the first American Garden Cities that were established during the first half of the twentieth century.
These major Garden Cities are described in Clarence Stein’s Toward New Towns for America (1951). This seminal work presented innovative strategies in designing modern and humanistic communities.
The federal government has recognized seven of these nine American Garden Cities as National Historic Landmarks because of their substantial significance to the nation’s history. Only 2,600 properties (out of 100,000 National Register sites) have achieved this rare designation.
Still to be certified as National Historic Landmarks are Sunnyside Gardens Historic District and Hillside Homes — both located in the New York City area.