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WILMETT·E LIFE May 3, 1929 P.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!l " T h e r e i s o n I y o ,n e N o r t h S h o ·r e " 'May Ho'ld W. R. R. Sales Com missions Ave. Paving Public on Church St. Site Hearing on May 17 Exceed First Price I ·McGUIRE & ORR offer The rapid rise in speculative values on Church street, particularly following the announcement of the Marshall Field and company store at the corner of Sherman avenue, !s in no way more sharply emphasized than by a few minutes' work with a pencil and paper, figuring the brokers' commissions that have been paid during the last five years for leasing the property at 816 Church street (Patterson brothers' music store) and twice selling the leasehold. These commissions alone according to the best figures available add up to more than the price paid by James and Bernard Patterson five years ago for the whole· 45 x 180 lot. The P~ttersons bought the property, originally part of the Hayes estate, for approximately $28,000. Between October of last year and the present time about $34,235 in brokers' commissions is believed to have been paid for negotiating the original lease from Mrs. Frances ]. Patterson of Wilmette to the Church Street Building corpora tion, selling the lease hold to a syndicate headed by Ernest Lyons and reselling it to Arthur Anderson. The lease negotiated last October, is for 100 years and calls for an average rental of $10,425. It . is rumored that the Lyons syndicate paid some $32,000 for the leasehold estate and Mr. Anderson in turn paid the Lyons syndicate about $42,000 for it. Home owners, realizing that they pay for every cubic foot of space in a house for every superfluous inch in height, width and length, can do well to consider the possible savings accomplished through smaller cellars, lower ceilings, and lesser attics. May 17 has been tentatively set by the board of local improvements as the date of the public hearing on the widening and paving of West Railroad avenue from Grant street to Isabella. The Cook county board at ,a re-cent meeting agreed to pay the cost of putting in a 40-foot strip of eight -inch concrete. A·s the street is to be made a 50-foot street with ten-inch concrete, according to present plan~, the abutting property owners will be calteri upon to pay for a ten-foot strip· of ten-inch concrete and a 40-foot strip of twoinch concrete. In addition they will pay for both curbs and excavation work. Figuring it all out, the county \Yill pay roughly half of th~ total cost of the improvement. As the railroad cannot be asses se d · for local improvement, the owner·. ;; oi the property on the west side of the street will > . . ar the entire burden except for the county's share. Wilmette's pavement, with which the new concrete will connect, is 52 feet wide and there is an eigh-foot sidewalk. Evanston officials feel that nothing less than a ten-foot sidewalk will ·suffice in business districts so a sidewalk of that width will be allowed for ariel the extra two feet will be taken from the roadway, making it two feet narrower than Wilmette's. The total · cost of the project will be about $153,000, it is estimated. Fine color effects are obtain ed in woodwork and floors through the usc of birch. This wood is easily impregnated with transparent stains of many different shades and vet the characteristics of the ·s ood a~e left intact. 3 Blocks From Lake On beautiful wooded lot 75xl95, .well planned spacious 8 room house, hot water heat; can be bought on exceptionally easy terms and reasonable price or owner will trade. Call Greenleaf 1080 for full informati~n. LEAVING TOWN Must Sell at Once Attractive Colonial, Hubbard Woods, 5 bedrooms, 3 baths ( 2 tiled) t 4. enclosed porchest all light sunny roomst in excel- , lent condition. WINNETKA Acre Home Site and one-half (I !~) acres adjoining thP third fairway of the beautiful Indian Hill Country Club. · Paved road, sewer, water. Restricted to one home as is adJOining property. This is positively the best parcel of vacant property in this choice Country home neighborhood. On~~ !1z acre beautiful wooded grounds with hundreds of perennials. Very convenient to transportation and school. Owner is engaging in business in another sta;te and someone will get a McGUIRE & ORR 541 LINCOLN AVE. WINNETKA 672 McGUIRE & ORR Established 18 9 3 good buy here. Phone 69 W. WASHINGTON ST., CHICAGO North Shore Oflices: us about it today EVANSTON WINNETKA HIGHLAND PARK KENILWORTH GLENCOE Fred'k B. Thomas&Co. 743 FJm Street Winnetka 2850 Oldeat and Ltugeat OPfratora on the North Shore