J. Howard Mecke Advertisement

From the Main Line Beautiful, 1928

Something unusual
at
WAYNE

In the Martin’s Dam Section just five minutes by motor north of Wayne Station, on the Main Line, a Colonial village, has been started.

These single homesteads will occupy sites varying from one and one-half to five acres, and will be built in true Colonial styles, having five and six bedrooms and three baths - prices ranging from $25,000 to $45,000.

All of these houses which I build will be equipped with the following unusual features which are included in the sale price :-

1. Hoffman controlled vapor heat - nationally known.
2. "Ideal Red Jacket" Porcelain Enamel boiler with all heating mains in basement covered.
3. Private inter-communicating ‘phone to servants’ quarters.
4. Metal lath on all ceilings.
5. Large Colonial brass knocker engraved with purchaser’s name.
6. Master electric switch from main bedroom.
7. Rubbish chute from kitchen to basement.
8. Individual built-in ‘phone booth (not coat closet).
9. Automobile gasoline tank and pump - 280 gallon capacity.
10. Metal weather stripping of the entire house.
11. Clothes chute from second floor to laundry.
12. Full-length copper screens.
13. Tile bath floors heated.
14. Lights in all closets on automatic electric buttons.
15. Built-in Electric wall heater in two bath rooms.
16. Copper gutters and flashing.
17. Old crane in each fireplace (Not reproductions).
18. Random width 7/8" oak floors, 5" to 12" wide with round oak plugs.
19. Old wood carved mantels - some 100 years’ old (Not reproductions).
20. A model of each house made to 1/4" scale.
21. Electric ventilating fan in the kitchen.

There will also be a few houses that will contain in addition to the above the following:

• Colored enamel bath fixtures, 2 baths and a first floor lavatory.
• Colored tile bath rooms.
• Finished room in basement with fireplace and wide plank floors.

Here is an ideal location for the man who wants to live in the country, and yet keep in close daily touch with his business. There is thirty-minute express service (no change of train), on the P.R.R. Main Line from Wayne to Broad Street Station, with eighty trains daily, and a commutation rate of sixteen cents. In addition there are 134 trains a day on the Philadelphia and western R. R., and bus service along the entire Main Line.

Adjoining this tract is the new “Chester Valley Stables” riding academy, from which one may take daily rides over the beautiful countryside and through the Valley forge Park of 2,500 acres. A polo field and steeplechase course will shortly be added to its facilities. The new St. Davis Golf Club is within walking distance to the south, while adjoining this tract to the north is the newly-completed Valley Forge Golf Course. Directly east, and practically adjoining, is the “Bob White Farm”, home of the Chester Valley Hunt. At Wayne is a mew motion picture theatre with 1,500 seating capacity. Wayne also has numerous fine stores and public, parochial and private schools. Sox churches.

Thirty-seven plots, of an acre and a half to five acres, in this Colonial Village have already been sold, which certainly shows that many persons are tired of the congested sections.

See the large model of each homestead and a most
unusual ten-foot painting of this section at the office of

J. Howard Mecke, Jr.
Builder and Owner

902 - 903 PACKARD BLDG.

OR CONSULT YOUR BROKER

Strafford, Penna.

Notes and References

• The Main Line Beautiful, 1928, published by J. Howard Goodwin & Co., Inc. In addition to other documents in the document database, see also the Image database.