LOST SYLVANIA SYLVAN WOODS

Redundantly named late 20th-Century plat, of Sylvania Township established in 1967, by Wingart and XXX. Laid out in three different plats and consisting of 140 lots, a total of 132 single-family houses and four townhouses were built between 1967 and 1977. The plat encompasses 40? acres off of Sylvania Avenue near McCord Road on a parcel previously owned by XXX. Despite the name, only about 50% of the Sylvan Woods was actually wooded - primarily in the southern half of the addition.

3749 Sylvanwood - Summer - 1971

House designs were typical of the era's most popular house styles - primarily two-story side-gabled Colonial Revival and Mansard Types, all with attached garages. (Several Split Levels and the occasional Ranch were also built.) Indeed, Sylvan Woods is characteristic and representative of a typical upper middle class suburb and affords a good window of housing types and construction from the late 1960s to mid-‘70s. Eighty percent of the houses were built by three major builders: Forrester-Wehrle, Wm J. Houck & Son, and Harold J. Miller. However, smaller builders, such as Craig Development Corp and Kenneth Pfaff managed to acquire a few lots and build speculative housing. (The quality of construction of some of these contractors, including use of building materials has been at issue. Most of the original windows and even some siding was replaced within thirty years).

"A Temporary Playground" - Summer of '71

The last single-family house in the neighborhood was constructed in 1977, bringing to a close ten years of residential development in the neighborhood.

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