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9 DELBARTON DRIVEScope and Content
Corner of Delbarton Drive and Kenilworth. One of the original Woodfield Estates Homes, completed in March 1929. The house was owned by Thomas A. Desmond, who had made his fortune in the rubber business at the turn of the century. Desmond was a founder of the New York Rubber Exchange, which later became known as the New York Commodity Exchange. In April 1948, he moved to Summit and died in September 1948.
According to the advertisement in the March 9, 1929 Newark Evening News, the Southern Colonial House was designed by architect Bernhardt Muller.
Although Muller would become well-known for his romantic style "story-book" architecture, such as the Robin Hood Cottage, he also designed colonial-style country houses, such as the D.W.Willard home in Scarsdale, NY during this period.
