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Deal green town experiment, Greenbelt served as a model for newer
planned communities like Reston, VA and Columbia, MD. The charm of
Greenbelt 's art deco town center, its row houses, inner-walkway system
and underpasses, still shows the vision of the New Deal planners.
Greenbelt Homes and the original town center remain today the most
famous and innovative housing and community project ever built by
the federal government. In 1997, Greenbelt was placed on the National
Register of Historic Plac es.
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