Street was drawn on 1889 Price estate real estate advertisement
Victoria Donohoe, before 1983:
We "labor under great inconvenience for the want of that road", pleaded 25 Lower Merion township residents in a March 1894 petition to the county's Quarter Sessions Court. Though more than half of what is now Sabine Avenue's length is in Narberth, the petitioners were mostly from Wynnewood or Ardmore. They included Francis P. Dubosq, owner of the turreted "Queen Anne" house still standing at the southeast corner of Dudley and Windsor avenues [demolished 1983].
That the road was seen as an advantage by landowners in its path can be seen by the fact that no landholder within the limits of the present borough was paid damages, except architect and real estate man Charles J. McIlvaine, Jr., who had purchased woodland along N. Wynnewood Avenue from the J. Aubrey Jones estate. Not requiring damages, though it passed through their land: the estate of Edward R. Price, Edward Forsyth, the public school, and the Elm Land Improvement Company.
In a December 1894 it was certified that the new 50-foot wide public road had been laid out and opened by the order of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Montgomery County.