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Note: Below is the Delco Realty News from 100 years ago. For years the Chester Times published once a week all the building news in Delco including, sales, construction, builders, permits etc.
Please take a look. Several years of the news is on my website, delawarecountyhistory.com
PLANS FOR NEW HOMES
Prepared for Benefit of Times’ Readers by Aymar Embury II, a Noted Architect,
and Those Who Desire to Build
To
encourage building in this city, the Times has arranged with Aymar Embury II, a
noted architect, to draw plans for ten brand new houses, the first of which
will appear in Monday’s issue. Others
will follow from time to time until the series is completed.
Homes
are in great demand in this city and for this reason it has been decided to
furnish the readers with this timely information. Real estate dealers report that there has
been an unusual demand for homes and indications point to a big building boom. The price of labor and materials will not
change during the present season and it is declared by prominent builders and
real estate men that when the “Build-Your-Own-Home” campaign starts by the
Government the prices may take a decided jump so the people who get in on the
building game at once will save money
Aymar
Embury, II is 38, born in Englewood, N.J., the original home of the Dutch
colonial style of house which he has made famous, and has just left France,
where he was a captain in the camouflage corps being attached to Company B of
the 40th Engineers. He was at
the front from May 1918 until the signing of the armistice, and was engaged in
camouflaging batteries of our big guns.
After the signing of the armistice, he helped the Y. M. C. A. in France
with the establishment of their architecture course for Yanks remaining there
in the Army of Occupation.
Embury’s
first work to bring him fame was his adaptation for American usage of the Dutch
colonial farmhouse built in New Jersey by the farmers from Holland who settled
there. It was quickly recognized as
being economical beautiful, distinctive and comfortable. Its vogue has spread all over the United
States and into Europe.
Indeed,
Embury is recognized as the man who has most affected small house architecture
in this generation.
In
addition to building small houses, which he prefers to do, he has built large
homes for some famous men, including a wonderful Italian villa at Bedford
Hills, N. Y. for Rupert Hughes, the writer, and a great mansion at Oyster Bay
for William Loeb, Jr. He is a graduate
of Princeton, a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and author of
“The Livable House,” “One Hundred Country Houses” and “Early American Churches”
and countless magazine articles on building.
SUBURBAN
ENTERPRISE – One hundred new homes will be constructed this year on the
Berkeley subdivision plot, near Ridley Park, a development started by C. W.
Gorsuch, of this city. Mr. Gorsuch has
let a contract to Grill & company to layout streets and pavements for the
new home center at once. This work was
started prior to the war but only the entrances could be finished because of
materials and labor biting commandeered by the Government. Practically all the lots in the division have
been sold, most of them to Chester residents.
OTHER
OPERATIONS – Work has been started by Contractor William Provost, Jr., on the
new drill hall and gymnasium for the Pennsylvania Military College. The building will have a frontage of sixty
feet and depth of one hundred and thirty feet.
A swimming pool will be placed in the basement and it is expected that
the building will be ready when the college opens its fall term.
A
concrete addition to the Aberfoyle Manufacturing Company will be started Monday
by Contractor Provost. The annex, which
will be 58 by 122, will adjoin the building on the south side of East Third
Street.
C.
P. Peters and Son, Philadelphia, transacted the following sales in this county
this week:
Concordville,
a 15-room, 7 ½ acre property on Concord and Chester Pike, adjoining the
Friends’ Meeting House grounds for Mrs. Elizabeth M. Bolles to J. Passmore
Elkton for $7150.
On
Middletown Road near Baltimore Pike, a 10-room house, 5 acres of ground for
Mrs. Effie W. Pierce to Benjamin E. Crowell, Philadelphia for $6300.
New
Cheyney station, a 15-room house and 10 acres of land for Dr. Harvey Shoemaker,
Philadelphia to C. W. Burnham, West Haven, Conn. This property was held at $10,000.
Chester’s
Jewish community has grown so rapidly during the past four years that its
institutions today are entirely inadequate and unable to cope with the
situation. In the year 1915 there were
about one hundred and fifty Jewish families in this city, while today there are
nearly five hundred. With
the return of its members, who have been serving with the United States forces,
the Young Men’s Hebrew Association, is the latest to feel the pinch for larger
accommodations and better facilities. A
committee of four, consisting of Julius Wolson, chairman, Abe Tollin, Chas.
Atschuler, and Max Dietch, was elected at a recent meeting, for the purpose of
formulating plans to remedy the existing contingency. After giving their problem serious
consideration they recommend that the association create means and ways for
building an association building somewhere in the heart of the city. A meeting of prominent Jewish people will be
held at their headquarters, Sixth Street and Edgmont Avenue, Sunday at noon,
when the building project will be discussed and a tentative plan of campaign
will be drafter and some of the things the association hopes to accomplish are
outlined. A paid secretary is one of the
things they hope to achieve.
The
local Y. M. H. A. is associated with the National Council of Y. M. H. A. and
Associated Activities, and a member of the State Federation of Y. M. H. A. William Topkis, president of the State
Federation and Philip Hemlick, secretary of the federation, will address
Sunday’s meeting.
The
Y. M. H. A. had its inception in this city in 1914, when it was organized by
Morris Schwartz, Julius Wolson, Irwin Grossman Henry and Morris Rosenblatt,
Morris Lehidine, Frank Savits and Jack Swimmer and its meetings were held in
the old Lafayette Building at Third and Edgmont Avenue. Its total membership was but a dozen. How rapidly this institution has grown is
evident by the fact that its membership today members nearly two hundred with
equally as large a number on the waiting list.
This is remarkable when it is considered that the association has not
been able to offer and privileges or inducements common to such an
organization, its limited social affairs have been marked successes.
A.
W. Watson of the firm bearing his name, is enthusiastic over the Y. M. H. A.
building proposition and is giving the project whole hearted support. He said:
“There is no reason why the good work of the Y. M. H. A. shall not
continue and there is no question in my mind but what sufficient funds will be
raised with very little effort to provide the construction of an association
building.
The
officers of the local association are Julius Wolson, president; Abe Tollin,
vice president; A. Samuelson, financial secretary, and Morris Berman,
treasurer.
Those
interested in promoting local Jewish activities are invited to attend
tomorrow’s meeting at the rooms of the association.
REAL
ESTATE TRANSFERS – The following real estate transfers were recorded in the
office of Recorder of Deeds McClenachan yesterday:
Ridley
Park – Francis E. Gilmore and wife of Chester to William H. Lorah of the same
place, three lots in Ridley Park estates; $609.19
Haverford
– Suburbs Holding company to Oliver N. Tomlin of Philadelphia, two lots in
Penfield, $2100
Darby
– Henry Shaples Darby to Matthew Warwick and wife of Colwyn, house and lot on
Second Street near Greenway Avenue; nominal
Darby
– Howard Saunders and wife of Darby to Edward M. Mealey and wife of
Philadelphia, house and lot, Spruce Street, near Moore Street; nominal
East
Lansdowne – Ernest H. Barzner of East Lansdowne and his wife to Benjamin D.
Gallaher and wife of the same place, buildings and lot on Hirst Avenue, near
Baltimore avenue; nominal
Haverford
– J. Elmer Watts and wife of Llanerch to the Presbyterian Church of Llanerch,
buildings and several lots, 601 Darby Road, Llanerch; nominal
Clifton
Heights – James V. Kane and wife of Clifton Heights to John Neshanian of
Philadelphia, buildings and lots, Baltimore and Penn Avenues; $3,592.20
Haverford
– John V. Speth and wife of Haverford to William J. LaPortes and wife of the
same place, two lots in Brookline; nominal
Upper
Darby – Carl Kneisel and wife of Philadelphia to Marian H. Taylor and wife of
the same place, house and lot, Kerlin Street, near Fifth Street; $3800
Lansdowne
– Hannum M. Chalfant and wife of Lansdowne to Margaret L. Howard of
Philadelphia, house and lot, Wildwood and Powelton avenues; nominal
Clifton
Heights – Malcolm S. Chambers and wife of Elkview, Pa to William H. Wagner of
Clifton Heights, buildings and lot, Penn Avenue, near Buckley Avenue, $2800
Upper
Darby – John H. Storer and wife of Waltham, Mass. to Florence D. Keyser of
Philadelphia, two lots in Highland Park; $780
Chester
– Thomas F. Trunsbetty and wife of Chester to Bruno Rersten and wife of the
same place, buildings and lot, Weigand Avenue, near Pennell Street; $2800
Upper
Chichester – Judson Weber and wife of Lower Chichester to Richard Elliott and
wife of Upper Chichester, lot in Pleasant View; $750
Ridley
Park – John H. Parsons and wife of Ridley Park to Lee A. Amslen and wife of
Smyth County Virginia, store and dwelling on Park Avenue, near Morton Avenue;
$6100
Prospect
Park – Delaware County Trust Company to John D. Lee of Prospect Park, lot on
Thirteenth avenue, near Folsom Avenue; $500
Ridley
Park – Robert E. Napier of Ridley Park to Edward Morton, Jr. and wife of the
same place, house and lot, 112 Rosemont Avenue; $3300
Norwood
– Harry Beniston and wife of Tinicum Township to Charles L. Shaw of Norwood,
buildings and lot on Amosland Road, near Chester Pike; $3000
Upper
Darby – Lawrence E. Tulley of Upper Darby to Horace M. Wall of the same place,
house and lot in Lansdowne Heights; $2900
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