Northwood News ♦ February 2006

Local History:  Photos of Neighborhood Homes Under Construction

By Jacquie Bokow

Anna Strieter provided these photos taken in 1950 when her home at the corner of Kerwin Road and Edgewood Avenue was built (seen at right).

The photo at left is looking south; the road visible in the foreground is Edgewood Avenue.  It is half paved as the developer only needed to finish the side of the street where he was building homes.  Most of the homes visible are on the northern Dennis Court as the homes on Edgewood hadn’t been built yet.

In the photo at right, the small white shack at the right, behind the finished Strieter home, was the office for builder John Delveccio.  He allowed three expecting — but at that time phoneless — couples on Kerwin, in turn, the use of a spare key to gain access to the office phone to call the doctor.  Elsie and Roger Pank used it first, passing it to Anna and her husband David after the birth of their daughter Sandra on August 18.  Anna passed it to the Spurs after her daughter Patricia was born September 7.  Myron and Charlotte Spur had son Michael November 7.  Anna recalls that Myron reported to his wife in the hospital that the streets had finally been paved.   ■