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Marked Increase, Noted in Wilmette Building Activities Building activity in Wilmette bas shown: a marked increase in, the past thrydays. Permits autboiig.cn struction wok amouniting to $86,63el were issued for the, thirty-day period éending* Saturday, july 25. For the corresponding perio last month the' building: construcion, authorized amounted to onily $51,450. Trhe largest permnit .of the month was for the new six-room classroom addition at the. Howard scboôl, now. under construction. Thbe addition wil! * cost $35,000., McKeown Brothers are the builders and Childs and Smithî the' architects. B. J. Myren, 1206 Isabella street, * took out a permit july 18. for a $25,000 brick and tile.-residence to be erected on the. east side of Hibbard road between Lake avenue and .Happ *roiad. Two other permits were issued for new residences, W. C. Huggins will build a frame-brick veneer home at 2012 Chestnut avenue at a cost o; $11,7W. S. M. Peterson is the arch- itect. Betts Brothers, Inc., took out a permit july 24 for a new brick veneer dwelling for F. W. Jameson at 2734 Blackhawk road, . the esti- mated cost of which will be $13,000. G. F. Keck is the architect. Four permits were issued for niew garages. H. L. Flentye, . 729 Lake avenue, wili build a brick garage at an estinated cost of $600. Frame garages *111 ,ebuiît ,for Mary Y. *Montgomiery, 609 Central avenue, E. A. Kayser, 2411 Thornwood avenue, and Frank Thalmàrnn, 1050 Lîli1nois road, at a total cost of $775. * The three. other permits issued this month authiorized the following build- ing construction: closed-in porch. for, James Gubbins, 715. Central -avenue, residenice alteration for Maàtt Rein- ert,, 1824 Wilmette> avenue, and sun porch for Henry, Cordeil, 923 Green- * leaf avenue. New Homes for Indian Hill Estates Above: home ta bê' buit for Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Stanten. Ezterior' wvalls Or'e stone. for the great sto ry and great chiimney, with haif Zumber and plaster above. Roof is. asbestos shingle in, colôr range. Sears Roebuck and eornpany tvill have. the general t'ont ra ct. George -Fred J<eck -was the architect. BeIoo: residence for Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Jameéson. Ëxterior zvalls arc dark red face brick .and roof -is asp'hait siate covered shingles. Bis Bros. vill build tlhe homie. George Fred Keck is the architect. Bis, Rratty, Inc., weere brokers for bothi transactions. New Filling Station, in Kenilworth Permits Ten thousand dollars worth of re- modeling .work, a new oil filing star: fion co-_Stîin $7,000 ain d a $250 private garage authorized bv t he four build- ing permiits isstied iii Kenilworth dur- ing the past mnontb, broughit the total c.ngt of c nstruction work started ini Building Jobs *Building activity on..the north shore, which bas been ina. tail-spin! for several, month. righted 7 itself in Winnetka during the past few weeks, zooming upwards, to record. heights with a. total of, twenty permits for building. amo unting to.over $1 .00000. The spurt started about the middle of May. During the 'latter -half ,,of that month five permits were issued for $7.300 worth of work4.ail of which, was* of a remodeling nature., with the exception' of the'building of one pri-. vate garage. In June, the total jumped to the diz eght of $939,85 witheight permits, $900,000. of. which represents. the cost of the two buildings corn-, prising the new addition :to New Trier High swhooi These were is- sued on the last day of the month. .june also made a good showing in the amount of remodeling work un- dertaken. Five permits .for this type of construction. and costing $34,550 were issued during the month. while $5,300 was spent on private garages. July, although not maintaining the pace set in june. also came back strong, recordinz a total of seven permits. one of which was for the new Community House improvements costing $130,060. $1.000. The residence is beingz buiît b v Samuiel:,Otis. on Walnut.street. j Ol.d Landmark PassesI Fred Keck is cesgninz for n'm >a LEASE RESIDENCE beautiful French home to be erected *Mr. and Mrs. Frank flaackes, Jr-, for' sprinz occupancv. The new home now of 3750 Sheridan road, Chicago, will he just across the street' from have leased of Bills Realty, lue.,. the Frank W. AlIen's new home now be- large brilck. residence, at 2710 Iroquois ing built on Ramona court. and,,next road, Wilmette. south of the W. C. Blacks. A JVinnetka Iaitdmark Is doomed i'o oblivion uwith the extension of the through highway paving projrft north. front Eln ýstr et to lozver road. Alost north rhovre residents will recogi.-e the structure pictured above as the engine she lier of the Chicago and North Western railzuay located north of Elm. street which lias stood since 'the carl y days of the railroad in this vicinity. It -ustbc. remoôvcd to inake, way for- the widening of Center street, an imeortant Iikk inî the new hiýqhtajo.