Merritt Square turns 100 - with completion of the park per photo 1921 - part of a pre-WWI vision for how neighborhoods should be developed around parks, open air for citizens and play space for children. With its various spellings from conception to the present - Merit - Merrit - Merritt, one of two proposed developments, the other one never built in post WWI housing boom, where "M" street, Castor Ave now cuts through from Kensington Ave. to Erie Ave. Located just a bit south of the "Thee Points" neighborhood where Harrowgate, Juniata and what's left of Aramingo meet where three thoroughfares Eire, Kensington, and Torresdale Aves. meet where once was a soccer stadium, diners, houses, a dairy, a country church and a Catholic high school. Now a waste land of used car lots, an ideal spot for high rises considering the public transportation etc.
https://phillyandstuff.blogspot.com/2015/06/merritt-square-city-vision-not-quite.html
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