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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 5 Nov 1927, p. 67

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WINNETKA TALK November 5, 1927 See preceding and following page for the story of Westmoor Trail = + } | | | H - * * | WESTMOOR TRAIL--in Winnetka To those who have vision to see things not as they are CONVENIENT TO TRANSPORTATION | --but as they will be--the above offers an interesting sug- gestion, both as to types of homes and to the general One cannot have these advantages and live within a plan of landscaping. block of the station. It is however, less than a mile to the | The Skokie Valley is a heritage of which we may be Hubbard Woods Station of Winnetka and slightly more proud. Certainly no more glorious sunsets in the world than a mile to the Elm Street Station. Not too far than here. Of all the places on the North Shore none away for those who enjoy a walk and 3 or 4 minutes can offer more in view--in peace and quiet and seclusion. by car. Westmoor Trail--protected as it is now and surely ScHOOLS NEARBY always will be leads down to the Community Golf : Course, or Skokie Playfield--a part of the village park Winnetka enjoys world-wide fame for its schools and < system. Here, residents may play golf for fifteen dollars rightly so. Here education is a science--a subject taken ] a year instead of fifteen a game. Of course, one will want seriously by parents. And results, tabulated by accepted to continue in his own golf club, but for those who methods of testing and judging--show that products of | might want to play a round early in the morning, may Winnetka schools are equal to any and far superior to easily do so, shower and breakfast at home with the most others with whom compared. To have these | family and still make the 8:27. The advantages, too schools near Westmoor Trail is a real convenience--one for the other members of the family--a real playfield is primary school within less than 4 blocks and Junior an advantage to be appreciated by all. High only a half mile away. | | NOTE: It is unfortunate that in reducing the diagram below, it had to be cut down so small as to make the figures almost illegible. Particular attention is called therefore to the following. The plot and houses are drawn to scale. The end plot to the left is 220 foot frontage--the five plots following are 173 foot and the end plot facing i Hibbard Road is 200 feet frontage--all are 165 foot deep. While the houses are all quite large as the picture above shows--uyet there is ample room, front, side and rear. 4 The shortest distance between houses is 80 feet--others go to 110 feet apart. + Z oH A fo Sas Eo Br 3 Op yo idle oe a or Rr 3 3 | 3 RAE "lay EEE ANNI EA EH 3 a $ y JE Arsmans Rows UL ; © b i ; D-- & GG 9: Dean & Dran ARNITECTS.

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