William Levitt

Levitt subsequently lost much of his wealth in unsuccessful investments.
. Levitt & Sons was sold to ITT International Telephone & Telegraph in 1968 for a reported $90 million.
. In 1959 the community was annexed by Bowie.
. In 1957 they acquired the historic Belair estate, home of Maryland's colonial Governor Samuel Ogle and his famous Belair Stables. Tompkins County, New York, Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan, and the Town of Tompkins are named after him.

During the late 1950s, Levitt and Sons also developed the commmuity known as "Belair at Bowie," in Bowie, Maryland. Tompkins was the first Vice President actually on a ticket after the passage of the Twelfth Amendment, as opposed to being named Vice President for being the Presidential election's runner-up (as with the first four Vice Presidents) or being appointed by a sitting president (as with Elbridge Gerry). Levittown, Puerto Rico, built in the 1960s, was also one of Levitt's projects. However, others believe that he added the middle initial "D" (which stood for nothing) while a student at Columbia College, to distinguish himself from another Daniel Tompkins there. A third Levittown of 12,000 houses was built in southern New Jersey, although it has since reverted to its former name of Willingboro to avoid confusion with the neighboring Levittown community in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. There is evidence that Daniel Tompkins's middle name was Decius. Levitt went on to plan and build another 17,000 home Levittown in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, which saw its first residents in 1952. Mark's Churchyard, New York City.

Levittown, New York eventually grew to over 17,000 houses. He died in Tompkinsville, three months after retiring as Vice President, and was interred in the Minthorne vault in St. The residents would come to be known as Levittowners. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1821, serving as its president. Houses sold for under $7000, a low price even by 1947 standards. In 1817 he built a dock along the waterfront in the neighborhood and began offering daily steam ferry service between Staten Island and Manhattan. Residents started moving into Levittown, New York in 1947. In 1815 Tompkins established a settlement and along the eastern shore of Staten Island that came to be called Tompkinsville.

The result was high-quality, nearly identical houses that were built for subtantially less than what they would have normally cost. He was elected Vice President on the ticket with James Monroe in 1816, and was reelected in 1820, serving from March 4, 1817 to March 4, 1825. Other construction groups would work in the same manner, adding their part to the house lot by lot. He declined an appointment as United States Secretary of State by President James Madison. The slab laying group would go down the street laying concrete slabs for house after house, 60 feet apart. He was Governor of New York from 1807 to 1817. Groups of workers would descend on a new, empty street. Tompkins was a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1801, a member of the state Assembly in 1803, and was elected to the United States Congress, but resigned before the beginning of the term to accept an appointment as associate justice of the state supreme court, in which capacity he served from 1804 to 1807.

In Levitt's home-building assembly line, the product (houses) obviously could not move. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1797, practicing in New York City;. In normal assembly lines, the workers stay stationary and the product moves down the line. He graduated from Columbia College in New York City, in 1795. Levitt's innovation in creating this planned community was to build the houses in the manner of an assembly line. He was born in Fox Meadows (later Scarsdale), Westchester County, New York. The Company named it Levittown. Daniel D[ecius?] Tompkins (June 21, 1774 – June 11, 1825) was an entrepreneur, jurist, Congressman, Governor of New York, and the sixth Vice President of the United States.

Levitt & Sons chose an area known as Island Trees near Hempstead, Long Island as the site for its huge building project after the war. After returning from the war, during which he served in the Navy as a lieutenant in the Seabees, William Levitt saw a need for affordable housing for the returning veterans. Prior to World War II, Levitt & Sons built mostly upscale housing in and around Long Island, New York. Design duties were handled by William's brother Alfred.

As President of Levitt & Sons, the real-estate development company founded by his father Abraham Levitt near the start of the Great Depression, William Levitt oversaw all aspects of the company but design of the homes they built. . He certainly did not invent the building of communities of affordable single-family homes within driving distance of major areas of employment; yet his innovations in providing affordable housing popularized this type of planned community in the years following World War II. William Jaird Levitt (February 11, 1907 - January 28, 1994), is the real-estate developer widely credited as the father of modern American suburbia.

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