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14,160
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Greendale, WI - History
We would like to provide the residents of Greendale a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Greendale Home page. The Greendale Home page provides as much information as possible on Greendale. Knowing Greendale’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Greendale’s Home page, you will also find Greendale’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Greendale has a population of 14160. 48.8% of Greendale’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.2 are female. 56.8% of Greendale is married and 69.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $228,453, and the average rent is $932. Household median income in Greendale is $74,661, and the individual median income is $41,877. Greendale’s Ethnic is the following: White(85.1%), Asian(7.3%), Hispanic(5.8%), Other(4%), Multiple(1.8%), Black(1.4%), Native(0.5%).
Greendale was one of three government sponsored "Greenbelt" communities constructed by the Resettlement Administration, starting in 1936, as part of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. The other Greenbelt communities were Greenbelt, Maryland and Greenhills, Ohio. The Village of Greendale was incorporated on November 1, 1938.
The planners and selection committees excluded African American families from renting homes and created a racially segregated and all-white suburban community.The original downtown area included the Village Hall, built in a Colonial Williamsburg style, 366 new homes comprising 572 living units, and several businesses.
These homes were often referred to as "Greendale Originals." The Greenbelt communities were patterned after the British Garden city movement urban planning concept. The greenbelt communities were built to be walkable so residents could walk to schools, shops and parks. New Deal workers built Greendale as a model village for the working class.
Income limits were from $1200 to $2700 per year, depending upon family size. In 1938, a one-bedroom Original rented for as little as $19 a month. Rent for a four-bedroom home was $46 a month. Over 200 of the "Originals" have unique artistic designs on the chimneys. Federal ownership of Greendale ended in 1953.
In the late 1950s Greendale experienced growth in conjunction with the expansion of the Milwaukee suburbs as a whole. While new homes were built and the number of minority families increased in Milwaukee County, racially restrictive covenants were used to maintain the all-white Greendale community.
In 1958, the Crestview Acres land was sold by Elroy H. Barbian for development with the restrictive covenant that only white families could purchase the homes. "No Persons other than the white race shall own or occupy any building on said tract, but this covenant shall not prevent occupancy of persons of a race other than the white race who are domestic servants of the owner or occupant of said building."Southridge Mall opened in 1970 as the southern sister mall to Northridge Mall.
Both malls were located on 76th Street, close to major east–west artery roads. Both were developed by Herb Kohl and Taubman Centers, Inc. In 1996, the shopping district in the center of the village was purchased by the Grandhaven investment firm founded by Roy Reiman, founder of a publishing company headquartered in the village.
The remake of the "Village Center" brought updates, attracted new restaurants, and made the village center more of a tourist attraction. More than 40,000 flowers are planted annually along the downtown streets, in hanging baskets, in sidewalk beds and storefront window boxes.To ease managing more than 2,000 men during Greendale's construction, workers were directed to the "A section", the "D section", etc.
This alphabetical reference has endured. Still today, all streets in each section begin with the same letter — the A section includes Angle Lane, Apricot Court, etc.,
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