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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 6 Apr 1939, p. 58

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T'he above archittect's rendering is that of a nine-room residence now nearingcomepletion~ at 909 Green Bay road, Winnetka. This is one of a groupi of eightTw NU yi m houses which C. A. llemphill and Tw ew AHonte~s in Associates have built. or are now . building in their Tower Manor sub-. PV umett e rernuts division, east of East Green Bay road road. started in Wilmette during the past Five o! these buildings have. re- week. cently been completed and four o! Frank P. Dewey is building at 2034 this number have been sold. Another Elmwood avenue, and the other ten-room bouse under construction has also been sold. One o! the com- home is being erected for C. W. pleted houses is being offered for Lenth, at 1938 Greenwood avenue, sale as are two -others now under according to permits just issued. construction. The Dewey residence, costing than three times as large January of this year as it was, the sarne month, of 1937, accordlng to the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, Mem- ,ber savmgs, building and loan as- sociations .of the bank sitpplied thieir highest. amfount of, construction finnng,$1.,547,000, in December foranymonth since the summer, and it was. refiected ini the home building initiated, the. following, rnonth, it is popinted out. by A. R. Gardner,. president of- the :Chicago bank. Improvement in home. building over last year .was greater in this district than in, ail of the tWelve Fèdleral Home Loan bank districts, except, Indiana and Cincinnati, he said. These data aIl demonstrate the growing strength of rèsidentiai- building activity in the Middle West, which has been one of the more lààà sections in thisphase oÈ recovery until lately. Wisconsin showed the more spec- tacular percentage of increase. building $384,200 worth of homes as compared with just $107.700 a year' ago. The rise for Illinois was from $438,100 to $1,297,600, a larger gain, of course, in actual dollars spent. January was the seventh succes- sive month i which the district had 't- on are kept open for public iii, Ow*iers of' desirable, im.to alims proved property in Chicago1 Stait Building, Lames and adjacent suburbs, wbo In New Home Section - lu.T.L-y.j.41i ~ L. - Dearborn, and Clark $9,000. James Paviovich is the r chitect and J. F. NrboteH m hl contractor. nt it A residence alteration costing 'Wiinetka Residence $1,000 was authorized ini a permit issued to R. R. Lippincott, of 11321 C. A. emphill is building a new Ashland avenue. residence at: 1248 Ash Street, Win- 'C. J. Caldirmni and A. Lirscht took netka, the estimated,,cost o! which is ý' r-- - ~1 > _fla( o n roe treets job at $1,000. .Vernon ,FIRST MORTOAGES r en uTape Pop Prompt Mil.. Ce# Broomeli Brothers, mNc. 111 W. WASHINGTON ST. - ANDOLPN 9121 Depudebl. Service. Sice. 155 Read the Wani Ada -REAL 4;à 42 b 1

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