That screenshot was sent to me by a friend of mine with a barf emoji. I think a barf emoji was being kind.
And I’m laughing because they listed as Church Road but it’s not actually Church Road. It’s Church Street because it’s a loop around back around off of Highland Avenue in Wayne/Radnor Township. Near Odorisio Park.
So the irony here is this is $1 million skinny box that is around the corner from the affordable housing on Highland Avenue known as Highland Homes. The house looks like a box I would get 6 foot garden stakes in. 
Of course, when I was researching Highland Homes, I came up with an article from 2001. And why that interested me was the mention of a company called Pennrose Partners which over the last couple of weeks I think it was was told no by West Chester Borough Council on the Church Street lot in West Chester :
So I went digging and I found an old listing for a lot for sale on Church Street in Radnor Township. And I’m thinking this is the same land and the same location only they say Church Road because Church Road is a lot nicer than Church Street in the category of snob appeal because oh my gosh, they can’t market it as being $1 million plus property around the corner from affordable housing can they?
Here are screenshots real estate listings from Church Road in Radnor Township and a video, so you can see it’s not even the same neighborhood:
How ugly is this million dollar design blight on Radnor Township? It is definitely Church Street not Church Road. My guess it’s a Main Line version of like calling a town a Main Line town when it’s not, or calling a house in Downingtown Chester Springs. Marketing with a side of egg on Realtor face, right?
I just can’t with this listing. I mean I knew listings were crazy in Radnor Township when I found these:
Willow Avenue was the street below Poplar Ave on the other side of the Gulph Creek from North Aberdeen where Radnor Township barely blinked when they tore down the Jonathan Lengel house recently. And speaking of Lengel, read this about the family from the 1958 Radnor Historical Society Bulletin:
Now I’m off on a tangent a little bit, but I will circle back to the ugly house on Church Street shortly. But again here is the post I wrote recently about the Jonathan Lengel house:
So people not familiar with Radnor Township wouldn’t know that Willow Avenue is not a fancy street. It’s a nice street but it started out as a place for the working man to buy a twin home after they filled in what was the Wayne Natatorium pool in the early 20th century. I go by the corner of the street on Radnor Street Road once in a while coming back from Penn Medicine in Radnor to make sure that the historical marker I got for them is still standing. And yes, I worked to get that marker approved and erected.
I don’t trust the Radnor Township of today. They value nothing. And they certainly don’t value design standards in new construction if they’re approving Lego houses to go with Lego institutional feeling apartments, townhouses, and condos with all the personality and charm of a prison meets a mental ward.
And the fact that the weenie little former meteorologist, John Bolaris, who’s like the walking talking Philadelphia joke for decades is the realtor on this is icing on the cake.
Here is the recent write up of him from Philadelphia Magazine:
John Bolaris Claims a Return to TV While Trashing Ex-Girlfriend
Sometimes, people should stay off social media.
by VICTOR FIORILLO· 3/6/2024, 9:52 a.m.
This is a town where local TV news personalities are very much Philly celebrities. John Bolaris was the talk of the town in the ’90s, when he was meteorologist for Channel 10. He became a regular fixture of gossip-column fodder. And he seemed to lead a charmed life — that is, until winter 2001. That’s when Bolaris blew his biggest forecast — or perhaps I should call it a fearcast. He predicted a “Storm of the Century” that amounted to less than an inch of snow. Folks laughed Bolaris out of town. He went to work in New York.
Bolaris turned up here again in 2009, this time at Fox 29. But things didn’t go so well. And Fox 29 soon parted ways with him. There was also the time when Bolaris claimed that $43,000 in charges on his American Express card were the result of two Latvian models drugging him. Oh, and there was that stun-gun attack in the Hamptons. I could go on!
Yeah there I left you a excerpt. You can click on it and read the rest of the article. The thing I remember most about this guy, other than how incredibly short he is is when we were all much younger and out on the town in the Main Line we would see him out. Of course we also used to see NBC10 Steve Levy and his zip up cowboy booties. And Sir Charles as in Barkley. Charles Barkley incidentally was always very nice. Bolaris and Levy? LOL 😂
But I digress.
This is pretty much hands-down, the ugliest new construction house I’ve seen in quite a while. And how does it fit into its surroundings and why do they say it’s on Church Road when it’s on Church Street which is off of Highland Avenue ? (Weird listing HERE.) this ugly house would look great next to those butt ugly townhouse things that the Ship Road couplet was built for in West Whiteland.
Anyway, that’s all I’ve got other than the Philadelphia Business Journal is listing a property that was once part of Ardrossan is for sale and the property the Ardrossan farmer rents is apparently also for sale.
Happy Monday, we’re having July in April…
