Aberdeen Village - Littleton, Colorado - Mid-Century Modern Homes

Large black and white painted Mid-Century Modern Home located in Aberdeen Village, Littleton, Colorado
 

Aberdeen Village is tucked away in a quiet and peaceful neighborhood next to Ketring Park, Gallup Reservoir, and the Littleton Historical Museum. It’s about a five minute drive from this neighborhood to Downtown Littleton. The neighbors are generally friendly and on a nice day, many people can be seen out walking their dogs or riding bikes on the streets.

Littleton initially started as farmland to help feed and sustain the growing City of Denver, and Aberdeen Village in particular started off as an alfalfa field in the 1950s. After WWII, like many other post-war neighborhoods, developers were able to create more prefabricated homes using innovative technologies as homeowners started to take advantage of the benefits of the G.I. Bill. Between 1950 and 1960, the population of Littleton increased by about 10,000 people and then more than doubled in the next decade.

Robert Hayuten, president of the Aberdeen Land Company, was the man responsible for subdividing the neighborhood. This neighborhood had a community association that still lives on today in order to promote the betterment of the enclave, and it is more so utilized today as a means of social gathering. Many of these homes were originally built in unincorporated Arapahoe County until the neighborhood sought to be annexed into the municipality of Littleton.

The homes in this neighborhood were custom built for executives. They were larger in square footage, built on oversized ½ acre lots, with views of the mountains, brick exteriors, and larger garages or carports. These were then advertised at a premium with a starting price of $19,900. While there are many brick ranch style homes sprinkled into the neighborhood, the models that are Mid-Century Modern specifically are the asymmetrical split level, the cross gable, and the front gable ranch models.

Aberdeen Village is one of the few lucky neighborhoods that has a Pattern and Idea Book for Post-War Homes created for homeowners, curated by Historic Denver in order to preserve the design and historic integrity of the neighborhood.