On Monday, November 25th Mayor Catrambone, Councilmen Lynn Jeney and Tom Lyon joined our president Mal Anderson to present the society with a check from PSE&G sponsoring the opening of our 2nd lobby display.
Thank you to PSE&G for supporting us.
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At our September 17th meeting, Judy Gauntt delivered an oral history of the Sears Modern Home Program and explain how to point out all the characteristics of a Sears Roebuck Home. Here are several homes in our area:
A-1 Appliances on Route 130 North is The Crafton Style Home. Joe Peditto commented that it had the porch on it when he lived there
A house at 208 Rancocas Ave in Delanco that was identified as a Sears kit house, ALADDIN model, built in 1950. (photos and information provided by Peter Fritz)
A Sears kit house at 524 Burlington Avenue in Delanco; a WINONA model from about 1940. (photos and information provided by Peter Fritz)
Miscellaneous Homes
The above homes are from the 1916 Sears Home Catalog. They shipped the entire house to you by railroad car. Sears was like Ikea before Ikea. Friends and family would come from all around to help the owner build it.
From 1908 to 1942, Sears sold more than 70,000 of these houses in North America, by the company’s count.
Sears Modern Homes offered more than 370 designs in a wide range of architectural styles and sizes over the line’s 34-year history. Most included the latest comforts and conveniences available to house buyers in the early part of the twentieth century, such as central heating, indoor plumbing, telephone, and electricity.
Primarily shipped via railroad boxcars, these kits included most of the materials needed to build a house. Once delivered, many of these houses were assembled by the new homeowner, relatives, friends and neighbors, in a fashion similar to the traditional barn-raisings of farming families.
Sears discontinued its Modern Homes catalog after 1940, though sales through local sales offices continued into 1942. Years later, the sales records related to home sales were destroyed during a corporate house cleaning. As only a small percentage of these homes were documented when built, finding these houses today often requires detailed research to properly identify them.
This Day in History, July 20, 1969 – First Moon Landing.
Artifacts provided by Recording Secretary Renee Brizzi.
Aerial Views of Delran’s Neighborhoods. Can you pick out your house?
** Aerial shots taken and provided by Rey Rosario **
An evening of fond remembrances of Delran’s good old days as recalled by long time Delran residents and sisters, Elaine McCabe and Katherine Dae. They shared their stories of what life was like decades ago growing up in their Delran family home.
Bud and Elaine Freck at house on Hartford Road
Current house on the corner of Route 130 N and Hartford Road
Thank you to everybody that came out for The New Jersey Researchers of Paranormal Evidence (NJROPE) on paranormal investigation and research presentation. There was a great turnout for this informative, and sometimes scary, presentation. Thank you Frank and Tammy for providing us with such great stories and photos.
For more information on The New Jersey Researchers of Paranormal Evidence (NJROPE) or to use their services, please visit their website, https://www.njrope.com/
Our Delran Historical Society Lobby Display!!!
Visit our website often to read about the updates that we are making to our display cases and photographs!!
Visit our Farms page to see names of farmers from 1893 and old locations of the various farms in Delran.
Farms
Delran Street Signs – A Piece of Delran History Still Available!
| Street Sign: | Qty In Stock: | Street Sign: | Qty In Stock: | |
| AMBERFIELD DRIVE | 4 | MARSHA DRIVE | 4 | |
| ASHLEY COURT | 1 | MELROSE AVENUE | – | |
| ASHLEY DRIVE | 4 | MONTCLAIR DRIVE | – | |
| AUTUMNWOOD ROAD | 3 | MORAVIAN AVENUE | – | |
| BELLE LANE | 1 | NOREEN AVENUE | 1 | |
| BORTON MILL COURT | 1 | NORMAN AVENUE | – | |
| BROWN STREET | – | NORWICH AVENUE | 3 | |
| BURGE STREET | 1 | OAK AVENUE | 3 | |
| CARRIAGE LANE | 2 | ONEDA AVENUE | 1 | |
| CENTER AVENUE | 1 | PRINCETON DRIVE | – | |
| CRANBERRY LANE | 1 | RIDGEVIEW ROAD | 3 | |
| CREEKDALE DRIVE | – | ROLAND STREET | 1 | |
| DIANE AVENUE | – | ROSLYN DRIVE | 3 | |
| DICKENS DRIVE | 1 | SECOND STREET | 5 | |
| ECHO AVENUE | 1 | SHARROWVALE ROAD | – | |
| ECHO COURT | 1 | SHELLY DRIVE | 1 | |
| EIGHTH STREET | 1 | SOUTHWICK AVENUE | 1 | |
| FAIRVIEW STREET | – | SPRINGCRESS DRIVE | – | |
| FARMINGTON ROAD | – | STARKE LANE | 1 | |
| FERN AVENUE | 2 | STEVENS DRIVE | – | |
| FERRY AVENUE | 1 | STONEHAM DRIVE | – | |
| FERRY STREET | 1 | SUMMERHILL DRIVE | – | |
| FIFTH STREET | 2 | SURREY LANE | 1 | |
| FOURTH STREET | 4 | SWATHMORE DRIVE | 1 | |
| FRONT STREET | 4 | SYLVAN COURT | 1 | |
| GRAND BOULEVARD | 3 | TARA LANE | 3 | |
| GREENWOOD AVENUE | 1 | THIRD STREET | 6 | |
| HAVERFORD COURT | 1 | UNDERWOOD BOULEVARD | 2 | |
| HOWARD STREET | 1 | UNDERWOOD COURT | 1 | |
| JANEWAY AVENUE | 1 | UNION STREET | 1 | |
| JUNIATA AVENUE | – | WALNUT STREET | 1 | |
| KAUDERER AVENUE | 2 | WATER’S EDGE DRIVE | 1 | |
| LAKE STREET | 2 | WHITEMARSH WAY | – | |
| LINDA AVENUE | 2 | WILLOW WAY | 1 | |
| LISA ROAD | 1 | WINDMOOR ROAD | 1 | |
| LITLE AVENUE | 3 | WOODYFIELD LANE | – | |
| MAPLE LANE | 1 | CHURCH STREET | – |
JANUARY 21, 2020 Meeting will be Show and Tell.
– Bring any historical item you would like to our meeting and tell us the story behind it. – We really enjoy hearing everyone’s interesting stories. – Items do not have to be Delran related. Any historical item is interesting.
Join us this Tuesday, November 19, at our monthly meeting at the Delran municipal building at 7:00 PM where Chris Doerner, antiques and collectibles auctioneer and owner of 21 Centruey Antiques, will be our guest speaker. He will share his experience and knowledge of the auction world. He will provide tips on what to do with that house of items you just inherited, how to better plan for those items “before” you inherit them, helping you narrow down your items of worth, and what to look for in a good auctioneer and become a successful bidder, yourself. Light refreshments will be served.
21st Century Antiques
Christopher Doerner
210 Ivy Road
Beverly, NJ 08010
Phone: 6098776843
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.allthingsold.com
