RETURN ENGAGEMENT: Auto tour of Crestwood neighborhood on the west side of Madison WI

Photo and videos by Retiring Guy

Original 12/4/2017 post starts here

Elder Place, right onto Bordner Drive



Crestwood 
Boundaries:

• East:  Rosa Road
• North:  Old Sauk Road
• West:  Owen Conservation Park
• South: Crestwood Place

City of Madison neighborhood profiles (text boxes added)

Elder Place u-turn at end of cul-de-sac




Timeline and description

• 1936.  Group of state worker form the Wisconsin Cooperative Housing Association
• Primary features
• quiet streets
• natural woodlands
• grassy parkland
• Vision
• discourage trafffic
• preserve the land
• provide parkland
• 1940.  About 20 homes built.  More planned.

Sources:

• City of Madison neighborhood profiles
• The Origins of Some Madison, Wisconsin, Street Name. Part VII.  (Historic Madison, Inc. of Wisconsin)

A view from the east side of Rosa Road

Photo by Retiring Guy

Related posts:
Auto tour of Westmorland neighborhood, Madison WI.  (12/7/2017)
Approach and auto tour of Owen Parkway, Hoyt Park.  (12/6/2017)
Auto tour of Indian Hills subdivision,  (12/6/2017)
Auto tour of Pilgrim Village.  (12/5/2017)
Auto tour of Highlands.  (12/5/2017)
UPDATE.  Madison's "Levittown" at 66. (12/2/2017)