The Trafford Terrace
In August 1941, under the leadership of attorney A.C. Scales, the Trafford Realty Company adopted and recorded the covenants of a new housing plan to be known as the Trafford Terrace. This was the second addition to the East Pittsburgh Improvement Company’s Plan for Trafford City. Less than four months later, the United States would be thrust into war following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
By October 1942, a Pittsburgh newspaper declared, “Trafford Plan Wins Favor.” The article reads, “Construction of another group of new homes for war workers is expected to start soon in Trafford Terrace, low-cost housing development developed in Trafford by the Trafford Realty Company. So far, 18 houses have been finished in this plan. Nine are now occupied, and several more families will move in this week. All utilities have now been installed, and the streets are being paved. The price range in Trafford Terrace is from $5,500 to $6,000. The new homes will be similar in plan and construction to those now standing in the plan, including both five and six room models of brick and frame. Albert J. Fritsch is in charge of construction."
Following the end of the war, the plan for the Trafford Terrace took off. In 1947, the "Borough of Trafford Beats the Housing Boom" with the article reading, "200 Homes Built by Free Enterprise. The industrial town of Trafford is now almost free from the drastic housing shortage that is haunting the country, according to Burgess M. R. Marker. Trafford Terrace, a new private housing development to contain 200 permanent brick and frame houses, now has about 60 houses occupied. The Terrace development came about when a group of interested Trafford businessmen formed the Trafford Realty Company and started the plan to beat the housing shortage in 1945."
