Series IV. Piney Orchard, Maryland,, 1954-1958

Crane and Elbert Peets were hired as consultants by Winwood Corporation (owned by National Plastics) to plan and lay out a new model town of 900 single family houses and 200 garden apartments between Baltimore and Washington D.C. near Fort Meade. Country Manor Estaes Corp. of Foundation Co-operative Housing Inc., the National Security Agency group, was interested in developing an housing area but the project foundered over provisions of water and sewage facilities and F.H.A. requirements.