All's well that ends Wells Road

As we saw in posts from April, which followed the early starts of the neighborhood, both distant history in naming origins to actual "nearer" history with zoning ordinances to create Meadowbrook, it is with this photo ad published May 1963 that marks the "completion" of the neighborhood at long last, just shy of 30 years after getting started in April 1936.

Irv Velinsky was not only the realtor but also the builder, which had some building delays in January 1963

As this is the only house on Wells Road I could not find any detail if Irv was involved in the naming of the Road, as a tribute to George Wells the Meadowbrook Inc. President who died just 11 years after the first open house, but I don't think so...

I found this ordance discussing extending infrastructure from Mali Drive through to Netherwood Ave in Nov 1947 and Wells Road is the only road to do so...

I think the road was created and named just prior to 1954 as these next two article snippets are the earliest mentions of the road that I could find... so quite a few years after George Wells' passing in Sept 1947.

One builder in 1954 wanted the storm sewer to just drain into the Green Brook... this was not approved.

While in this 1954 article mentioning Wells Road, there's a potential Playground?

I'd have thought there would've maybe been a dedication or small ceremony for Wells Road? Neither storm sewers or playgrounds seem the right moment.

but then again, maybe another change of plan, because the map of "Section 7" with Wells Road wasn't filed for 4 more years... until 1958.

So, as the history of the neighborhood has proven here yet again, from the opening in 1936 to the publising of this house photo ad for the home on Wells Road in 1963... "... whate'er the course, the end is the renown."