Poplar Avenue House Efforts Continue

September 12 2002


Well, I'm in college now, and I luckily I'm finding time for the site. Ah, news items. Well, now I can only check the local papers from there websites (which can be quite out of date and unreliable). There continues to be talk about the Poplar Ave. house. Although nothing is decided for sure yet, it seems that Radnor commissioners (namely my neighbor Hank Mahoney) are trying to preserve the house. The Suburban erroneously said the houses on Poplar Ave. were designed by "prominent architects Drexel & Childs." In fact, Drexel and Childs, who developed Wayne, not designed houses, had nothing to do with the development of Poplar Ave. Those houses came a few years after Drexel & Childs.

Another item: A year after the original Highland Ave. homes were demolished, their progeny are almost complete. The Highland Ave. homes of 1931 were built as the U.S. government's first low-income housing project. The same agency is building the new replacements, which should be completed soon.




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