2928 Delano Drive
The Bagnal-Nettles Influence
This 1941 home was built by the Bagnal-Nettles Builders Supply Company for Edmund Cason Bunker, Jr. (1915—1999), and his wife, Katherine Gooding Bunker (1919—2000). The house is notable for its Art Deco-influenced shed-roof entrance. Bagnal-Nettles was prolific in Forest Hills, constructing at least thirteen houses in the neighborhood. In leading the second phase of Forest Hills' development, the firm administered a transformation from the original naturalistic vision of the development to one more defined by the houses within it.
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2928 Delano Drive, 2015. Historic Columbia collection
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Edmund Bunker, pictured here with his wife, Katherine, and children, Kay and “Bitsy,” served in the United States Naval Air corps during World War II. They relocated to New York City shortly after this photograph was taken. Reprinted from The State, December 9, 1945.
