Sage - Your Exclusive Buyer Agent for Wayne Real Estate

Wayne is small town America to many of its residents and one of the "true" towns along the Main Line.  The Wayne business district and surrounding neighborhoods have sidewalks to take the residents to the fashionable shopping, post office, movies, community library, various churches, the Radnor Middle School, and several banks, restaurants, and other commercial establishments.

Wayne´s development began when a railroad stop called Cleaver's Landing was established. It was renamed Wayne Station after General Anthony Wayne. Parcels in the area totaling 293 acres were bought by banker J.H. Askin, where he built the fabulous Louella House and developed some of the first homes in the area. His and surrounding land were bought in 1880 by banker A.J. Drexel and newspaper editor G.W. Childs, to form a larger development they called Wayne Estate. In a brochure from 1887 about their development they described Wayne Estate as follows: "Wayne is not an accidental aggregation of cottages; it is a town built by design, and provided at the start with all the conveniences to which residents of cities are accustomed and which they are so apt to miss and long for when they go into the country or even into the suburbs of a great city. The scheme of the town was well thought out and planned before any of the new cottages were built, and, as it was undertaken by liberal gentlemen of abundant means, no expense was spared in the preliminary municipal work." It remains so to this day. 

Wayne has been added to the Delaware Valley Planning Commission's Classic Towns of Greater Philadelphia. The marketing initiative started in 2008 to bring a focus to the area's established communities by promoting them as desirable places to live, work and play.

There is not one definitive factor to be a "Classic" town but some include walkable, have diverse housing, historic elements and accessible transportation. It is a chance for each town to convey their unique attributes. Wayne was one of nine towns chosen for the second phase of the program.

Interesting fact about Wayne's history: From 1895 to 1903, residents of Wayne could swim in one of the largest fresh water pools in the country. The Natatorium was a block long pool created by damning the Gulf Creek in the 1800’s and was used to cool local residents off in the summer or ice skate on in the winter. All that remains in memory of the pool is part of the building that used to be a clubhouse, the women’s changing room which is now a private residence. Sometime next year there will be a sign to evoke the memory of the pool, and interested par-ties are hoping to also create a storyboard with photos and information on the natatorium and the neighborhood, sometimes referred to as Little Chicago.

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