HomeMy WebLinkAbout1964-04-04 Parade's Two Sites (Palm Beach Post)FIRST PARADE OF HOMES, NO.
PALM BEACH, 1956. This already
historic picture shows all that existed
of the Village of North Palm Beach,
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Oct. 1956. The 17 houses are that
year's Parade of Homes — the first
Palm Beach County show of this type
ever staged.
North Palm Beach
NORTH PALM BEACH. Built
on some 12 square miles of land
bought and developed in 19,55 1) -
II.A. (Bob) Ross and Richard
Ross,
The developers also installed
their own sewage and water
treatment plant in 1956—the
first such complete treatment
plant to be built in Palm Beach
County —at a cost of about 31 •
million.
The Developers also donated_
free of all cost a 10-acre tract
to the Palm Beach School Board
as a site for the North Palm
Beach School which now exists.
ists.
Since the first homes were
built in 1956, the village has
bro\vn to 1,523 homes, and a
population of 6,523, and the
value of all construction in the
now well-known municipality is
in excess of 337 million.
The Ross brothers were 1957
winners of the coveted National
Assn. of Home Builders Award
of Merit for neighborhood
development — the first Florida
company to win this prize.
prize.