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in] Realty Inc. re- REAL ESTATE SECTION October 6, 1928 WINNETKA TALK 51 Aeroplane View Showing An Important Realty Development on the North Shore Indian Hill ¢ This develop- Estates, here ment was de- pictured, pro- 3 vides an exam- what } : can be accom- plished by pro- gressive spirit and siveness. ple of aggres- Bills ports that more than 60 percent of some 122 acres comprising the Estates, put on the market in January 1927, has been sold. Indian Hill is being built, not as a sub-divi- sion of lots, but as a com- munity of resi- dential estates. OVAN HILL CLUB. \ 3 - signed for pro- fessional and executive peo- ple. The min- imum price for which a home may be con- structed is $12,- 000. For the larger plots the minimum prices range as high as $25,- 000. Other features are that only single family homes are per- mitted and a fifty foot build- ing line is standard. The Estates will re- semble an English Manor. N.S. BOARD, FIFTY STRONG. ATTENDING CONVENTION Members Out to Bring Back Piizes--Hear Senator Rich- ard Barr Make Speech A seismic disturbance might indicate a big noise somewhere, but if anybody on our north shore thinks that's what is happening at the present time, the guess is wrong. There's plenty of noise, but it comes from some forty or fifty miles southwest of us and it is the members of the North Shore Real Estate Board doing their stuff at a great convention and preparing to bring back home a bunch of prizes. The convention is the twelfth an- nual affair of the Illinois association of Real Estate Boards and it is being held in Joliet (our north shore boys are not expected to prolong their visit longer than today), which was close enough to make possible an easy journey by automobile. Fifty Members Attending Latest reports were that about fifty members of the North Shore Board were in the prison city to attend the convention. And they were there for a purpose. They were out to bring back the attendance prize and also to annex the parade prize. When they return we'll know but at the time of this writing this important information was not available. However, the jubilance and enthu- siasm displayed on their departure made it certain that the North Shore boys would make a great bid for the big honors. They were well prepared to make a front with fancy colored (Continued on page 52) Sale of Six Indian Hill Estates Lawns Reported in the Last Week Bills Realty Inc. reports the sale of six more lawns in Indian Hill Estates during the last week, bring- ing the total volume of sales in the last ten days to $110,000. With this report comes the information that more than 60 percent of the Estates has been sold. The sales during the last week follow: Mr. and Mrs. Frederick G. Whitt- ington of 2308 Park place, Evanston, have purchased a heavily wooded lawn on Blackhawk road. Jirah Cole was the broker. An adjoining half acre was acquired by Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Quigley of 2205 McDaniel avenue, Evanston. Mr. and Mrs. Quigley are having Biels Brothers, Inc. complete their new home for occupancy by May 1 next year. John Howell was the broker. Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Evans of 605 Central avenue, Wilmette, have secured a property of a depth of 193 feet. Edward Grimm was the broker. Mrs. Maynard D. Howell of 2708 Grant street, Evanston, has acquired a half acre on Iroquois road on which she plans to construct a home of Eng- lish architecture within the current year. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Goetz of 460 Locust road, Winnetka, have pur- chased a lawn on Iroquois road hav- ing a depth of 255 feet. Two large oaks on this property are estimated to be over 150 years old. Mrs. Frances Ward, formerly of 354 Elder lane, Winnetka, and now of 1103 Locust road, Indian Hill Estates, has purchased the three-quarter acre property adjoining her new home, In- dian Hill Tudor. Seven more new [Estates homes are rapidly being brought to comple- tion and will be ready for occupancy this month. The eleven room stone house of English design by Anderson and Tichnor of Lake Forest on Ash- land road is to be ready for Mr. and "Mrs. Fred O. Becker of Evanston by the end of October. This home is on a two-acre plot. The end of the month will bring the completion also of the large twelve room Colonial of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Drucker of Wilmette. The design is by Ralph Stoetzel. Three acres of ground permit spacious landscaping effects. Mr. and Mrs. George Gonsalves of Winnetka have their ten room Georg- ian home on Seneca road well on the way toward completion. Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Henderson of Wilmette are hav- ing the landscaping finished on their new eight room English home on Blackhawk road and expect to move in shortly. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Bills of Evans- ton likewise are = completing their eight room home of French motif on Blackhawk road. A large studio liv- ing room, an antique fireplace, old English plank flooring, leaded win- dows, story and one-half master bed- room are some of the features of this residence, designed by George Fred Keck. WILMETTE STEPS OUT TO CLINCH NEW RECORD Building Permits for September Reach Figure of $381,250 Church Huge Factor It has been mentioned in these col- umns that Wilmette was out to estab- lish a new record for building activity this year, but when the permit list for August accounted for the expendi- ture of only $99,250, a few folks be- came "doubting Thomases." But read this and be convinced that the predic- tion was absolutely sound: September permits not large in number, were for a total of $381,899. This gigantic figure for a month which ordinarily doesn't produce great activity already clinches a new record for the year. The permit taken out for the new Methodist Episcopal church at Lake and Wilmette avenues, is the answer to how it happened that nearly four hundred thousand was chalked up for the month. The church permit was for $300,000, but other per- mits failed to come up to the average monthly pace of the year. Big Leap Over Last Year Comparisons are always interest- ing, and comparing the figures of Sep- tember of a year ago with those of last month shows that last month's total was exactly $340,264 more than a vear ago. These figures are startling and indicate the pace Wilmette is showing in building activity. The building of the new church, of course, "made" the big month, but that isn't particularly startling in view of the fact that during this year there (Continued on page 46)