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REAL ESTATE SECTION October 5, 1928 WILMETTE LIFE Aeroplane View Showing An Important Realty .Development on the North Shore .. I Indian H iJI Eatatea, here pictured, pro· videa an exam· pie of what can be accompliahed by pro· grer aiv~ apirit and aggreaaiveneu. Bills Realty Inc., reports that more than 60 percent of aome 122 acres comprising the Estates, put on t_ h e market in January · 1927, has been sold. Indian Hill is being built, not This develop~ ment waa designed for professional and executiYe people. The minimum price for which a home · may be COD· atructed is $12,000. For the larger plots the minimum prices range aa · hiah as $25,o. oo. Other feature. a r e that only single family homes are permitted and a fifty foot building line is atandard. The Estates w_ill reaem:ble an English Manor. as a · sub-division of Iota, but as a community of residential estates. N. S. BOARD. Fm STRONG. AnENDING CONVENTION Members Out to Bring Back Prizes-Hear Senator Richard 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 hunch of prizes. The convention is the twelfth annual 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 tomorrow), which was close enough to mak~ 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 thev were there for a purpose. Thev were out to hring back the attenda.n ce prize and also to annex the parade prize. When thev return we'll know but at the time of this writing this important information was not available. However, the iuhilance and enthusiasm displayed · on their departure made it certain that the North Shore boys would make a $!'reat hid for thtbig honors. They were we 11 preparec1. 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, bringing 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. Whittington 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 nt w 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 English architecture within the current year. Mr. and Mrs. ]. R. Goetz of 460 Locust road, Winnetka, have purchased a lawn on Iroquois road having 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 ~ust road, India~ HiU Estates, has purchased the three-quarter acre property adjoining her new . home, Indian Hill Tudor. Seven more new Estates homes a.re rapidly being brought to comptetion and will be ready for occupancy . T thts month. . he eleven room stone house _of Enghsh design by Anderson and Ttchn~r of Lake Forest on Ashland road IS to be ready for Mr. and Mrs. Fred 0. Becker of Evanston by the end of October. This home is on a two-acre plot. . . The e?d of the month w11l bnng the completion .also of the large twelve room Colomal <;>f Mr. an~ Mrs. ~-Ienr.y Drucker of Wtlmette. rhe destgn IS by Ralph S~oetzel. Three acres . of ground permit spacious landscapmg effects. Mr. and Mrs. George Gonsalves of Winnetka have their ten room Georgian home on Seneca road well on the way toward completion. Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Henderson of Wilmette are having 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 Evanston likewise are completing their eight room home of French motif on Blackhawk road. A large studio living room, an antique fireplace, old English plank flooring, leaded windows, story and one-half master bedroom are some of the features of this residence, designed by George Fred Keck. WILMEnE STEPS OUT TO CUNCH NEW RECORD Building Permits for Septemhel' Reach Figure of.$381,250 Church Huge Factor It has been mentioned in · these col~mns that Wilmette was .ol!t to es.t~b hs~ a new record for bU1ldmg a~t1v1.ty th1s year, but when the permtt bst for August accounted for the expenditure of only $99,250, a few folks became "doubting Thomases." But .r ead this and be convinced that the prediction was absolutely sound: ' September permits not large in number, were for a total of $381,8tt. 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 permits failed to come up to the average monthly pace of the year. · Big Leap Over Laat year Comparisons are always interesting, and comparing the figures of September of a year ago with those of la&t month shows that last month's total was exactly $340,264 more than a year 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) · I I .