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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 2 Mar 1928, p. 66

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I IL------------..... Clui/Jter . . t:OIPLETE PUIS ra CENIER. stRFl1 ~ -. HOUSES AND VACANT ON THE NORTH SHORE · EDDINGTON &: AUEN, Inc. Renting Insurance Loans 410 Liadea AYe. F. Coleaaaa Barroqlaa Quinlan and Tyson Open a New Office on Linden A venae Quinlan & Tyson, Inc., announce the opening of a new office at 424 Linden avenue, Wilmette, in the Linden Crest Apartment building. They have taken over the management of this building :~~~~- contains 56 apartments and 4 w .ei"L" (Continued from preceding page) now underway at the southwest corner of Center street and T~wer r'!3d, have also been planned With a v1ew of the proposed widening of. Center street her~, and here also '!'II be a well rounded corner where tt enters the busy Tower road. . . Center street from Pme street north, now has a twenty-five foot pavement. The new plans call for · forty feet. Pine Sbeet . Crou·D8 In the profile section of the accoD!panying sketch, is shown a comparison between the new grade and th.e old grade at Pine · street, where 1t crosses the tracks of the Northwestern Railroad company. The present is a 5.5 perceflt grade. The new plans call for only a 2 percent ~ade, by which this dangerous crossm_g ap~ proach will be reduced a~proxtmately from six feet to two feet 1n one hundred feet. In other words, it will change a grade which is now similar to the Oak street hill, to practically a leve~ ~rade. This is made possible by prov1dmg a long, easy approach ~f Center s~reet, north and south of Pme street, ~ath a very light incline, not. over ten mches in one hundred feet, m Center street. This not only mak~s the impr'?vement at Pine street posstble, but 1t 1s along the best lines of highway planning and . engineering, it is said. A public hearing on the foregomg plans has been set for the third Tuesday evening in March, the date of the regular village council meeting. Mrs. McDowell, who was formerly with E. E. Stults & Co., is now associated with them in this office. She will specialize in the sale of property in Wilmette and other North Shore ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~D~~~oo~~~~ three .years has been in the Renting Department of the Evanston office of Quinlan & Tyson, Inc., will represent the Renting l)epartment in the management of the ,Linden Crest and will also soecialize in the sale of property in Wilmette and other north short" towns. The office is located on Linden ave., a block west of the terminal of the elevated line. Tornado-Stricken Area Experiencing Big Boom KENILWORTH GARDENS Thrtt blocks dirrcdy wat of dx Kenilworth Depots, on Kenilworth Avenut just ovrr thr Ridgt, lin a tract of land which is bring rapidly drvrloptd. Many improvements arr alrrady in-tbt balance arr now bring installed. Tbrtr nrw. rxcrptionally wrll-built bou·s bavr bttn compitted, art rrady to move into, and art open to offrr. Six other homrs art undrr construction in this wellrrstricted subdivision. Somr very dtsirable vacant. property is still available at remarkably reasonable prica. For full particulan and with no fartbtr obligation on your part, communicate with our Wilmette oflicr. The tornado which swept an area of St. Louis, September 29, has incr.eas~d land values appreciably in the dtstr1ct devastated, according to William W. · B~~~~~~~m·~lief Committee, retiring president of the St. Louis Real Estate exchange. Countless instances have come to the attention of the committee of increase in land values from the opportunity given to erect modern substantial structures in place of the ones destroyed, Mr. Butts states.. Property worth $100 and $125 a foot (as for example the corner of McPherson avenue and Sarah street) is now having offers of OLEWINE SELLS RESIDE·NCE $300 a front foot. Charles E. Olewine reports that he The St. Louis Real Estate exchange has sold the English residence at 445 has adopted a resolution advising that Oakdale avenue, Glencoe. members of the exchange in the future insist, when they are negotiating loans on property, that the owner provide & AT VERY an LOWEST RATES coverage in tornado as well as fire insurance to at least the full extent of 0. Vacaat ..d Zad Mort...the loari. The board further recommended that bombing, explosion, riot and civil com711 Elm St. Wiaaetlra liZ motion insurance be placed on all construction loans. Lo us P. W. Bradstreet &Soa MOUAT & .FLAHERTY lncorpmated NORTH SHORE DOWNTOWN OFFICE 35 No. DEAR80RN ODCAGO OFFICE 1177 WILMETI'I! ~VE. WIUIE'ITE WILMEITE 273-4 CENTRAL 787o

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