Building Prospect Park's new Jr./Sr. High School and town gossip.

The dedication booklet of the Prospect Park Jr. and Sr. High School from October 23, 1931. The building  still stands on Washington Ave. between 9th and 10th Aves. Today it is the administration building for the Interboro School District. The Interboro School District in 1955 when the Prospect Park District joined the Glen / Nor School District aka Glenolden and Norwood. Part of the original building has been torn down. I'm surprised it took 7 years to build, work began in 1924. Perhaps a reader knows why.

Note: The Chester Times in the 1920's and before did a weekly take on building in various towns. Plus they would give local gossip too. All areas were covered especially the Chester Pike area where a lot of building was going on. Below is Prospect Park from 100 years ago.

CHESTER TIMES 

February 21, 1924 

PROSPECT PARK BEGINS WORK ON NEW SCHOOL HOUSE  

Bad Weather Interferes with Active Operations But Dirt Will Fly in Day or Two; Many Homes are Planned for Borough; Other Notes of Interest

          The extremely bad weather of the past week was responsible for retarding of active operations on the borough’s new school house, Washington Avenue between Ninth and Tenth Avenue, although an actual start was made.  Lumber is on the scene of operation, and stakes have been driven and in the next few days the dirt on the cellar operation will begin to fly in dead earnest, according to the plans of the contractor, James H. Hutchinson.

          The new building is to contain eight classrooms, and an auditorium with a seating capacity of five hundred people.  The structure is so designed so as to provide for future extension up to a total of twenty classrooms.

          Dr. Richard Owen has plans out for a very attractive two and a half story house of Colonial architecture, to be erected at Tenth and Prospect Avenues.

          R. R. Hindman is about to erect two more houses on Summit Avenue, between Chester Pike and Tenth Avenue, in the Pine Hill tract.  H. P. Miller will also erect a home on Summit Avenue.

          Edward Brighton is building four additional houses on Tenth Avenue, adjoining his other operation.

          The basement of St. James Episcopal Church, Lincoln Avenue, was the scene of a lively gathering of sport fans Tuesday night.  The occasion marked the presentation of a silver loving cup offered by the Chester Times to Prospect Field Club, the winning team of the Delaware County Junior League.  Samuel Norton received the cup on behalf of the local boys, the presentation being made by Joseph Donovan for the Media branch office of the Times.  A collation was a feature of the affair.

          Mrs. B. Frank Johnson of Lincoln Avenue is assumed among the sick.

          The Epworth League of the Methodist Church will give a Leap Year party on February 28.

          Members of the Ladies’ Aid Society of the Methodist Church have a meeting scheduled for this evening in the chapel.

          The meeting of the Friendly Class of the Sunday school of the Methodist Church, scheduled for February 28, has been postponed to March 6.

          B. H. Johnson, principal of the local school, will speak at the March meeting of Sharon Hill Home and School Association.

          Schools of the borough were closed yesterday, due to the impassable condition of the highways early in the morning.

          Street Supervisor Howard Hunter with a gang of men was kept busy yesterday keeping gutters and street crossings open.

          In a letter to friends here M. D. Gould, who, with Mrs. Gould, is on a cruise through the Panama Canal and up the Pacific, tells interestingly of the fine weather enjoyed in the far away clime.

          Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Myers, who recently moved to Seventh and Lincoln Avenue from Westinghouse Village, were given a house-warming party by a number of former neighbors from over Tinicum way, on a recent evening.