Editing Juniata Terrace, Pennsylvania (section)

===Design of Juniata Terrace===
The Philadelphia architecture firm of Bellinger & Perrot designed the three American Viscose plants, including the Lewistown plant with its expansions. During that time, [[Emile G. Perrot]] left the company and started his own firm to concentrate on designs of buildings for universities and churches. His work was so respected that American Viscose asked him to design the new community of Juniata Terrace.

Perrot traveled Europe and the US extensively to adopt design styles for the villages under his direction. His first was a village at the Marcus Hook Viscose plant and then a larger industrial village in Wilmington, DE. To alleviate the feeling of congestion, he used a popular design concept from the [[Garden Cities]] movement that provided for open space and greenways within a community of closely built homes. Perrot decided this would be the best approach for the industrial village of Juniata Terrace.

Perrot chose a red brick, Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements house style for the village. This architecture style allowed Perrot to employ cost-saving, repetitive designs while assimilating the row homes within the Garden City community. Perrot’s use of multiple architectural design influences were certainly significant for the enduring historic qualities of Juniata Terrace. Although the features were simplistic, the totality of the village layout, the repetitive front porches and bay windows and the slanted rooflines come together to form a harmonious design.

Formally organized around one large, central green-space boulevard in four sections, four blocks of row homes align the boulevard on each side. The front of the eight blocks of row homes face the centralized green space known as Terrace Boulevard. One additional block of homes is situated behind the first block of Terrace Blvd., fronting Hudson Avenue. Those homes face north. Two other blocks arranged linearly are situated behind the south side of the first two blocks of Terrace Blvd. Those homes face south, fronting Delaware Avenue. The fourth block of Terrace Boulevard is set at an angle, providing some relief to the linear layout.

The village consisted of 250 homes, the elementary school, the store building with a grocery store and a drug store and 112 garages. The grocery store was originally leased by the Weis Pure Foods Stores, today’s Weis Markets. A full playground was built for the school and village. American Viscose gifted the land for the church in 1950. It opened in 1952. Today, the village is the same except that 52 of the garages remain and the school is being repurposed.

The village was considered the most modern for its time, with homes having full plumbing, a coal furnace in the basement for central heating, all electrical wiring enclosed within the walls of the homes, and piped sewage from each home underground to the disposal plant. The residents were given the option of telephone service since Bell Telephone provided the lines to the homes. Twelve windows, and nineteen in the end and break homes, provide considerable natural sunlight and ventilation. The original design and features are still current for today’s living requirements.

Each home featured a living room, a dining room and a kitchen on the first floor, with a full bathroom, three bedrooms and closets on the second floor. The front porches are still an important feature, and the second-floor bay windows and sloping roofs add character to the fronts of the homes. The back yards feature a hair-pin iron fence with a gate. The popular “Green and Cream” trim made a uniform appearance, still in practice today.