Pembroke Village Historic District

Pembroke Village is a planned residential district of brick dwellings on curved streets in northeast Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Begun in 1918, it was laid out by the United States Housing Corporation to house workers at the Bethlehem Steel plant during World War I. The architect Milton Bennett Medary designed its houses, which feature Colonial Revival details such as six-over-six windows, brick lock courses and belt courses. Planners arranged rows of houses in concentric circles around a planned hub of stores, though the full 170-acre scheme was never completed and only about one-eighth was built before the war ended. The contractor ended work in December 1918, and the partly finished houses were sold in July 1919 with complete plans for completion. Most houses still follow those plans. The district is considered a well-preserved example of USHC community planning in Pennsylvania, one of only five of its twelve proposed projects built according to the original plans.