Ridgewood-Herald News, March 3, 1938
Mabel and Dr. J. Howard Gould moved into their house at 92 Monte Vista Avenue in 1938. The property on the corner of Monte Vista and Heights Road had recently been put up for sale. A house and barn had been located there. The Gould’s actually purchased two lots.
Ridgewood-Herald News, Feb. 11, 1937
Howard helped design the house, with a doctor’s office on the first floor accessible by a back door. (I am looking for the name of the architect.) He personally traveled to Pennsylvania to buy stone for the house and planted pine trees by the back porch, which grew into a forest by the time I was a child. The backyard had plenty of space for a large vegetable garden and, later, an impeccably green lawn for croquet. His sons Robert and John built a stone wall to separate the lower garden from the upper garden. I believe they also built a red-painted wooden tool shed.
About 10 years ago, the late Virginia Dietz forwarded me an envelope with photographs and negatives taken when the house was being built.
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