The story
Built in 1957, for a town that had just been born
When this neighborhood was drawn up, Tinton Falls didn't exist yet. The borough had broken away from Shrewsbury Township in 1950 and called itself New Shrewsbury — the name it kept until 1975. The Garden State Parkway had just been cut through, New York was suddenly an hour away, and the population nearly doubled in a decade.
The developer called it Fairfield. The original brochure promised fully landscaped plots, oak floors, copper plumbing, and sliding glass walls opening onto covered garden porches — designed by architects Edwin Gerber and A. Pancani Jr., with interiors by William Pahlman Associates.
56 Cloverdale Circle is the model they called The Split Level: nine rooms, over sixty-eight feet long, with a recreation room on the lower floor and varying rooflines meant to echo an early farm dwelling. Two families have lived here since it was built — ours since 1985. The landscaping the brochure promised has had almost seventy years to fill in.
The original sales brochure, kept and framed by Adel next door at 52 Cloverdale — an original owner from 1957, who stayed on this street for the rest of her life. Better reproductions coming soon.
Before — aerial
