Buildings were designed to a modified version of Plumbe's third-class house plan in the Arts and Crafts style, with white-rendered brickwork, regular low gables, and curved ground floor windows.
His firm has a reputation in and around the Bay Area for doing first-class housing for the poor and elderly, for mixed-income residences and for innovative green designs.
"We see it as first-class housing for New York City residents in a world-class design that people 50 years from now will remember as the center of the Games in our city".
Kate Dodsworth, NHF's assistant director, said: "The poll results highlight London's core problem - we are a first-class city with a third-class housing system.
They were no longer described or marketed as "third-class" houses.
The larger first- and second-class houses were built in the centre, close to the church and school, while the more numerous third-, fourth- and fifth-class houses were built in the estate's outskirts.
All houses were designed with at least one parlour and with the kitchen, scullery, and toilet in separate rooms at the rear of the house; the first-class houses also had toilets upstairs.
For many of the smaller fourth- and fifth-class houses, the doors were aligned at right angles to the façade of the house, so as not to open directly adjacently to their neighbours.
Many properties, particularly on the central Gladstone Avenue, were built in this style; this maintained the unbroken façade of the first-class houses, but allowed large numbers of smaller and low-income families to be housed.
Dickens described the house as a "frightfully first-class family mansion, involving awful responsibilities".
