Jersey Homesteads was established in 1937 as part of FDR’s New Deal, to relocate New York City garment workers to the fresh country air. The concept developed as a reaction to industrialization and urban decay. “Garden cities” were to have a grand boulevard and a central park with museum, shops, housing and communal gardens, and surrounded by farm land. Understanding how Jersey Homesteads developed requires understanding the Garden City approach to urban planning founded in England 1898 by Ebenezer Howard, begins the film. The RAP funded In The Architectural Vanguard.
As a member of the Roosevelt Arts Project, he became interested in the history of the architecture and began researching it at Rutgers Special Collections. Johnson moved to Roosevelt, where he built an art studio with skylights behind his garage. “To my untrained eyes it looked contemporary and modern.” Johnson recounts from that first visit, from where he was to drive Landau and Shahn to the Printmaking Council of New Jersey in Branchburg. These well-known artists were part of the reason Roosevelt, in recent times, became known as an arts community.
He first visited Roosevelt when offering a ride to friends Jacob Landau (1917-2001) and Bernarda Bryson Shahn (1903-2004). During the 26 years he lived on Clarksville Road in West Windsor, he used the pingpong table in his basement as an art studio. Johnson, who retired from a career in market research, has been making photographs, prints and assemblages for a quarter century. In Jersey Homesteads: In the Architectural Vanguard, Rooseveltian Ben Johnson has documented the events surrounding the development of the town that is today listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The flat-roofed Bauhaus homes, designed by Alfred Kastner and Louis Kahn, in the town once known as Jersey Homesteads, were part of an experiment to move immigrants from inner cities to the countryside. Another is to see one of the greatest jewels of architecture and planning. is only one reason to visit (read my story in the Dec. A studio sale at the Assifa Space, 40 Tamara Drive, Dec. It is, of course, home to the mural, pictured at left, painted by Ben Shahn, in what was then a town known as Jersey Homesteads. Roosevelt, NJ, has a rich artistic heritage.
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