Newport Village Allotment Historic District

Newport Village Allotment is a planned subdivision of about 24.5 acres in Boardman Township, south of downtown Youngstown, Ohio. Platted in 1926 and 1927 by the Newport Realty Company, it combines commercial and apartment buildings along Market Street, a service alley with garages, duplexes on Chester Drive, and single-family houses on Jennette Drive and Overhill Road. Most construction took place between 1928 and 1931, and the mainly brick buildings follow Tudor Revival or Colonial Revival designs. The layout echoes ideas from landscape architect Warren H. Manning's 1922 plan for the Mill Creek park area. It was among the earliest neighborhoods in the area built for automobile access, with deed restrictions that required uniform setbacks, rear garages, and approved building materials, keeping parked cars out of the streetscape. The district contains 144 contributing buildings and 11 noncontributing ones, and it drew a mix of professionals, business owners and tradespeople as early residents.