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WINNETKA TALK December 11 1926 Home Building Activity Lively Despite Unfavorable Weather BARRINGTON HE country home section of Chi- cago where one can ride horseback from his front door over miles of beau- tiful bridle paths, hunt Pheasants in his own back yard during the season, play golf and enjoy the most unusual views and scenery in Illinois. Cowles and Taylor 332 S. La Salle St. Phone Wabash 7813 ST J AH AU EERE REEEE LEER EERE ERE EE ERE EERE EERE EERE EEE Le Er See Now HOW COMFORTABLY you can live at The Elmgate See how happily--how easily and economically you can live at this homelike hotel that does away with all home cares and banishes heating problems. A number of desirable one and two room home units available--inspec- tion every day from 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. or phone. Greenleaf 2100 he ELMGATE MAIN STREET AT ELMWOOD AVENUE Cornerstone Reveals Big Boost in Realty Values Last week when the corner stone in the Capitol building, Chicago, known as the old Masonic Temple building, was opened, papers contained in the strong box, published in 1890, told of golden opportunities for investments in land, "only five miles from the courthouse. Twenty acres in Rogers Park were offered for $10,500 and lots on Crawford avenue were selling for $350 each." In striking contrast to this, the owner of a small acreage tract near Glencoe is said to have just refused an offer of $11,000 per acre, and $6,000 today is considered cheap for a lot in that village, although it is more than four times the distance from the loop to Rogers Park. Chicago Area to Grow by Million in 5 Years That the population of the Chicago metropolitan area should reach a min- imum total of 5,000,000 persons within the next five years is an estimate borne out by figures and estimates just submitted to Mayor William E. Dever of Chicago, and Edward N. Hur- ley and Myron E. Adams of the Cen- tennial Exposition committee. More than one-third of this increase was credited to those areas which lie out- side the city's corporate limits. WITH KROLL AND SMITH Mrs. William J. McDowell, formerly associated with the E. E. Stults Realty company, has accepted a position with Kroll and Smith, real estate brokers at 419 Fourth street, Wilmette. PHONE WILMETTE 364 831 RIDGE AVE. WILMETTE, ILL) DEVELOP HOME SITES Max Ekelman, Glencoe Builder, Con- structs Attractive Residences in Jackson Avenue Area Max Ekelmann, of 595 Vernon ave- nue, Glencoe, is numbered among the builders who are being attacted to the numerous attractive building sites on Jackson avenue, in that village, where at No. 505 he is now developing a $35,000 residential property which he plans to have ready for the market in the spring. The foundation was put in the past week, and work on the superstructure will progress as rapidly as weather conditions will permit. The house will be of the English tvpe, constructed of buff stucco on tile, with shingle roof and will com- prise eight rooms, three baths and a two car attached garage. Mr. Ekle- mann says it is to be one of the pret- tiest homes in this section of the vil- lage, and is indicative of other similar high class residential properties now underway or being planned for this section of Glencoe. Mr. Ekelmann recently completed for Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Miner, their beautiful residence property at 344 St. Palos, a Pennsylvania Colonial of stuc- co on tile. the stucco being in natural color. It is a massive ten room house, with a large sun porch, breakfast room, three baths and an attached ga- rage, a specially pleasing design for the beautiful grounds, the latter hav- ing a frontage of 125 feet and a depth of 250, in the rear of which is the much admired rock garden. John Archibald Armstrong, of Chicago, was the archi- tect. Hoyt King Purchases Valuable West Acreage Hoyt King, of 711 Forest avenue, Wilmette, has purchased for investment seventy-one acres on the south side of Half Day road about a half-mile east of Waukegan road, from Plotke and Grosby for $152,000, or approximately $2250 an acre. It will later be subdi- vided and sold in small acre tracts, Mr. King announces. BUYS WINNETKA CORNER P. R. Cunningham, contractor and builder of Glencoe, has purchased of Ward Pearl, through P. W. Bradstreet and company, 788 Elm street, Win- netka, the sixty feet of vacant at the northwest corner of Ridge avenue and Ash street, Winnetka, on which he is planning the erection of a seven or eight room house, for the spring mar- ket. A First Mortgage Gold Real Estate Bond secured by North Shore property -- the Christmas gift that ex- presses more than a passing consideration. SMASGOLEE 1564 Sherman Avenue Evanston Pr