Media "History Mystery" and building in Clifton Heights!

 

This weeks "History Mystery" is above it is Baltimore Pike in Media Boro proper. Originally Baltimore Pike was Washington St. The McKnights who know the area quite well  believe it is the north side of Baltimore Pike looking from Church St. to Jackson St. They believe the second home is now the Rigby Funeral home.

The Clifton Heights Presbyterian Church at 360 N. Oak Ave. about 1924. Happy Easter to all my readers

CHESTER TIMES  

March 14, 1924 

 BUILDING PLANS AT CLIFTON HEIGHTS 

 Prospect Encouraging for Busy Season in That Section

          Further evidence that the Central Delaware county Building and Loan Association is one of the fastest growing organizations of the kind in the county was shown at the meeting of the association held in the First National Bank Wednesday evening.  Applications for loans aggregating $11,000 were made, not to mention the large amount of cash handed out.  Local residents have decided that the town is amply large enough for two building and loan associations and they are now taking advantage of the additional one.  That both building and loan associations will be a necessity here this summer was evidenced by the report of Howard M. Lutz, Esq., attorney for the Cherry Grove Realty Company, who said that more than one hundred new homes will be erected on the Cherry Grove tract this summer.

          There is also a report that a number of new bungalows are to be erected on the old Richardson tract adjoining the Gibson property on Springfield Avenue.  Several houses are already under construction on this site.

          In the east ward of the town, builders are again renewing their activities of last summer and fall and in the vicinity of Broadway Avenue, where numerous houses have already been erected, indications are that many more will go up this summer.

          Builder John Morgan is planning to erect eight houses on North Penn Street, above Baltimore Avenue.  The only obstacle in the way to immediate start of operation is the faulty drainage of the street.