In 1925, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, a labor union based in Cleveland, Ohio, purchased land to create the city of Venice and hired city planner John Nolen to complete the design he had already begun for the land's previous owner, Dr. Fred Albee. A leader in the city planning movement in the first quarter of the 20th Century, Nolen integrated physical, social, economic, and political facets into a cohesive whole and platted the Edgewood Section to provide lots less costly than those in other sections of Venice. Edgewood consisted of 16 blocks east of the railroad tracks and industrial area and included Groveland, Myrtle, and Pineland Avenues. Most lots were 50 feet wide by 150 feet deep and sold for $850 to $1,600. Its houses ranged from simple one-story wood frame front-gable cottages to one-story poured concrete Mediterranean Revival houses with flat roofs and parapeted walls, and Edgewood also had a cluster of bungalow style houses. Initially outside the corporate limits of Venice, the section was annexed after 75% of area property owners petitioned for inclusion, and the Venice City Council passed an ordinance in January 1927 authorizing the city's first annexation. By 1928, more than 100 homes had been built there, most on speculation. J.E. Lambie of Cleveland built Edgewood's most unusual houses using the lamolithic system of poured concrete walls, and eight of these houses stand on the north side of Groveland Avenue between Country Club Parkway and School Street. Although Edgewood originally lacked a park, the city of Venice created Mundy Park in 1943 on land given by Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Mundy, and in 1989, 32 houses in the section were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Edgewood Historic District.