First Parade of Homes, (aerial view) No. Palm Beach, 1956FIRST PARADE OF HOMES, NO. Oct. 1956. The 17 houses are that
PALM REACH, 1956. This already year's Parade of Hoines -- the first
historic picture shows all that existed Palin Reach County show of this type
of the Village of North Palm Reach, ever staged.
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NORIT11 PALM I31�:.�('lI. htiilt
oil some 12 square illlles ()i' lall(1
bought and develope(i in I)y
ILA. (Bob) Ross and Richard
Ross,
The developers also illst�dle
then' oxvil seta e and watel'
treatlllent plant ill 1956 -tile
first such complete treatillent
plant to be built in Palm Beach
CoulltN'-alt a cost of about 81
llllllloll.
The Developers also donated
free of all cost a 10 -acre tract
to the Palin Beach School Boa1•d
as a site 1,01' the Nortil Palm
peach ,-;cllool which now exists.
ists.
Since the first homes \x -el -e
built 111 1956, the village has
bl-mvil to 1,523, hollles, alld a
population of 6,529 3, and the
value of all construction in the
now well-kilown municipality is
in excess of 1:6 million.
The Ross brothers were 1957
Willllers of the coveted National
Assn. of Mollie Builders Award
of Merit f'ol• nei,(41lborhood
development — the first Florida
company to win this prize.
Prize.