Zelosky’s Park View Crest Brass Development Plaques

Pictured below are all the Zelosky Brass Development Plaques on each street corner in Park View Crest that has one or more. The top photo shows each paired set in relation to one another (or a lone plate if one is missing). Underneath are the same one or two plaques in closeup view so that residents can better reference their details and conditions for the future.

Zelosky Brass Development Plaques, above, corner of N. McVicker and N. Indian Road opposite the golf course. Photos by Mina.

Zelosky Brass Development Plaques, above, corner of N. Meade and N. Indian Road opposite the golf course. When these markers were replaced in new sidewalks, different spacing was employed, as they are now centered in each slab rather than set closer to each other at the corner. Interestingly, the plaque identifying Meade Avenue, named for the Union General George Meade (who was victorious in the Battle of Gettysburg in 1963) is mistakenly spelled “Mead.” The guess is that the error is compounded from an 80-Acre/Sidwell Map Page 1305D typo that doesn’t spell the name correctly. Photos by Mina.

Zelosky Brass Development Plaque, above, on the opposite corner of N. Indian Road and N. Meade across from the golf course. While the Indian Road plaque is present, the Mead(e) plaque that would that would be expected to complete the pair in the adjacent sidewalk block is missing from a section of cement newly-poured and stamped by Norvilla LLC 2021 Broadview, Il. Photos by Mina.

View of the corner of N. Indian Road and N. Moody absent either of the Zelosky Brass Development plaques that, by pattern along N. Indian Road in Park View Crest, would be expected to be found perpendicular to each other along the grassed edge of the front lawn. The picture reveals sidewalks that were replaced by two different projects, at two obviously different times. Some slabs were inset through the Chicago Department of Transportation’s initiative to make sidewalks more accessible as part of its ADA Sidewalk Ramp Program by removing curbs. Judging by the many individual blocks of replaced sidewalk sections along N. Indian Road (which appear as lighter-colored concrete), the other project looks to be part of a homeowner’s voluntary sidewalk replacement as part of Chicago’s Shared Cost Sidewalk Program

Zelosky Brass Development plate, above, corner of N. Indian Road and N. Melvina across from the golf course. Only the Melvina plate remains in an older section of sidewalk while the Indian Road plate that would be expected to be there is absent from a new section of sidewalk stamped by Norvilla LLC 2021 Broadview, Il.

Zelosky Brass Development Plaques, above, corner of N. Melvina and W. Huntington. Photos by Mina.

Zelosky Brass Development Plaques, above, opposite corner of N. Melvina and W. Huntington. Photos by Mina.

Zelosky Brass Development Plaques, above, corner of N. Moody and W. Huntington with the expected Moody plaque missing from where a sidewalk section was replaced. Photos by Mina.

Zelosky Brass Development Plaques, above, corner of N. Melvina and W. Raven. Photos by Mina.

Zelosky Brass Development Plaques, above, corner of N. Merrimac and W. Raven. Photos by Mina.

Zelosky Brass Development Plaques, above, opposite corner of N. Merrimac and W. Raven. Photos by Mina.

At the very edge of Zelosky’s Park View Crest subdivision at the southwest corner N Mevina & W Huntington is a competitor’s developer’s plaque, the only one of its kind found in Gladstone Park, below. As if to capitalize (or hone in on) the panache of Zelosky’s grand success, Edward J. Lesker mounted his own “Addition to Chicago 1977” brass plaque connoting his one block area of homesites. The Sidwell Maps confirm Lesker’s development as a “resub of prt. It 208 in WM ZELOSKY’S PK. VIEW CREST.”