The eleven-acre Talbot Park Apartments complex is located in the suburban Talbot Park neighborhood of Norfolk, bordered by the Granby Street Suburban Institutional Corridor to the east and south. Commissioned by Fred C. Trump and James Rosati of Talbot Park Apartments, Inc., the Talbot Park Apartments were designed by Norfolk architect Bernard B. Spigel and constructed from 1942 to 1943 in response to housing shortages spurred by the dramatic population increase in Norfolk during the 1930s and 1940s. Funded with the assistance of Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Insured Mortgages, Talbot Park was developed for White residents during the height of World War II; the thirty-three Colonial Revival-style apartment buildings embody the distinctive design elements of wartime garden-style apartment buildings, which reflect the FHA’s role in the design, materials, and construction of such complexes. Talbot Park Apartments is nominated under the Garden Apartment Complexes of Norfolk, Virginia Multiple Property Document (MPD) for its association with the tremendous increase in private housing in Norfolk in response to the city’s population growth and resulting housing shortages during World War II, as well as the FHA’s role in financing garden apartment complexes constructed during this period.