​Ellendale

A portion of the Friendly Neighborhood owes its origins to a ten-phase housing development called Ellendale. This land was owned by a woman named Georgia Ellen Dale. She is known to have operated a show horse stable named Ellendale Acres from approximately 1950 to 1955 at 26th Avenue & Chambers Street. The original Ellendale development (1955) was followed by nine Ellendale additions. Around 250 total lots were created.

​The original development consisted primarily of a modern, tract house built using mid-century post and beam construction. About fifty of these houses were built in Ellendale. An additional three are located in the nearby Adamsdale development.

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The need for post WWII housing resulted in plans for thousands of new developments across the country.  Most never got off the ground.  The somewhat fanciful 1955 artist's rendition shown above would never have fit onto the local topography.  The map below compares the artist's concept for street alignments (shown in yellow) to what the street alignments came to be (shown in white).  The approximate location of Georgia Ellen Dale's riding stable is also noted.  The 1955 sketch also shows Westmoreland Park bisected into two parts by 22nd Avenue and some kind of pond to the west of Taylor Street, just south of 18th Avenue.