Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1917 — WILL ADOPT PLAN [ARTICLE]

WILL ADOPT PLAN

Syndicate Proposes to Construct Large Number of “Co-operative Homes" in Pennsylvania City. Plans are under way to construct at least 1,000 homes in Marcus Hook, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. One of the most interesting of the projects is for the construction of 57 houses on a plan similar to that of the English village of Chester. This plan is sponsored by a Philadelphia syndicate, and the estimated cost is upwards of $250,000. According to specifications the village will center at an intersection of two streets. The proposed homes will be of the type known as “co-operative homes,” similar to those being built at Bourneville and Port Sunlight, England. The dwellings will be built of brick and stucco, with sloping roofs and will be set well back on lawns. At each of the four corners of the four principal residential squares there will be a triangular shaped lawn with shrubbery and flowers.