The Beaverdale Brick: how a house type became a neighborhood language

Beaverdale is one of those rare neighborhoods where the houses became part of the name. The neighborhood association says most subdivisions were developed between 1920 and 1940, and that in 1938 contractor E.T. McMurray began building the now-famous Beaverdale Brick homes. That date matters because

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