The Bywood School at 330 Avon Rd. in Upper Darby about 1928.
NOTE: In the 1920"s all of Delco. east of Media was growing very quickly. The townships and boros that bordered Phila. were the ones growing the fastest. Builders were creating towns like Bywood, Stonehurst etc. and other towns that have been forgotten.
CHESTER TIMES
September 10, 1920
$100,000 OPERATION AT BYWOOD IS ONE OF SEVERAL
BOOMS
Bywood,
one of the new and rapidly growing substantial residential sections of Upper
Darby Township, is having sixty more attractive detached stone houses
erected. These new houses are being
built by P. J. Lawler, who was among the first to build up Bywood.
The new
operation will mean an investment of $100,000.
Lawler has just completed forty houses in Bywood, and the new ones will
be of the same type. The houses are of a
distinct design and built for real home life, having every convenience, and
built on filbertine streets.
Mr.
Lawler expects to finish the new houses before winter sets in. At the same time, he is going to extend the
operation over the entire tract which he purchased. During the winter months, he will make the
necessary excavations and grades for new streets in Bywood, upon which he will
build many houses next spring.
Bywood
is one of the convenient suburbs to Philadelphia, being close to the Sixty-Ninth
Street Terminal, being the first station out from the terminal, and it is
twenty minutes from the City Hall, Philadelphia.
The
Merion Realty has also erected 39 fine houses at Bywood, adjoining the Lawler
operation, and this concern is still building more.
SECTION
DEVELOPING FAST – There is little doubt that the district in Upper Darby
Township, beginning at Sixty-Third and Market Streets, running westward, is
bound to be a great new residential section which will house thousands of
Philadelphians.
In order
to keep up with the rapid progress of Bywood, Stonehurst and other sections in
the neighborhood of Sixty-Ninth Street Terminal, P. J. Lawler, has determined
that the rapid influx of people shall be permanent, and that the new comers
must have every convenience and pleasure.
In order
to do this, Mr. Lawler is building an immense fire proof theatre building at
the corner of
West Chester Road and Garrett Road which will seat 2,000
people. This building will be four
stories high. There will be on either
side large stores, and it will cost more than one million dollars. The foundations for this mammoth structure are
now in course of erection. This great
building will not be completed for at least nine months or a year.
SCHOOL
PROBLEM LOOMS – The great building development in the township, with the rapid
influx of people, has caused much concern for the commissioners of the township
as well as the school directors.
The
school question has been a serious problem, but the school directors are going
to meet this important issue squarely in the face.
The
township has already built a new high school building at Lansdowne Avenue, but
now comes the need for a grammar school, and the school directors have
purchased three acres or more of land in the neighborhood of Long Lane and
Garrett Road upon which will be built a school house of commodious size to care
for the children of Bywood and the McGlatchey tract, now known as
Stonehurst. The people of the township
will be asked to approve a bond issue of $200,000 at the November election to
provide funds for the erection of the new school referred to as well as an
addition to the Drexel Hill which was built about four years ago.
The
township commissioners are also in quandary – the constructions of roads and
extension of sewers. The progress has
been a fast that the commissioners may find that some means must be found for
financing the improvements which must be made.
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