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Greendale is a village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, located southwest of the city of Milwaukee, with a population of 14,854 at the 2020 census.

Greendale was one of only three 'Greenbelt' towns built by the United States government during the Great Depression — the others are Greenbelt, Maryland, and Greenhills, Ohio — constructed by the Resettlement Administration starting in 1936 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.

Greendale was incorporated as a village on November 1, 1938, and its first residents were 572 carefully screened families who rented their homes from the federal government.

The village's first homes, known as 'Greendale Originals,' comprised 366 houses with 572 living units; in 1938 a one-bedroom Original rented for $19 a month and a four-bedroom home for $46 a month.

More than 200 of the Greendale Originals feature unique artistic designs on their chimneys.

Greendale's streets are organized into lettered sections — every street in the A section begins with the letter A, and so on through the alphabet — a system created to direct the more than 2,000 workers who built the village.

The Greendale Historic District, covering the original planned village, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 2012.

Federal ownership of Greendale ended in 1953, and the village grew rapidly with Milwaukee's suburbs, reaching a peak population of 16,928 in 1980.

At the 2020 census Greendale had 6,121 households and a median age of 43.1 years.

Southridge Mall, which opened in Greendale in 1970, is one of the largest shopping malls in Wisconsin.