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.
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