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REAL E·S TATE SECTION November 2, 1928 WILMETTE LIFE · North Shore Scores Big Advance tn Building Activity WINNETKA PERMIT LIST LEAPS TO HIGH FIGURE Great Building Activity Record Ia Set in October, Total · Being $416,150 Winnetka, with its 31 ·0ctober building permits, authorizing work approaching very nearly the one-half million dollar mark, has established a great record for fall activities in this line, which will carry it well through the winter and afford cause for a genera.l Thanksgiving, even though .there should come a lull in November build ing. Nine of the permits last month were for new residences, the total cost of which is $157.000. The grand total includes $212,000 for the new Skokie school gymnasium, now well underway; the new garage being built by B. W. Blow, on Center street, at a cost of $25,000; fifteen private garages, costing $7,700 and five remodeling jobs, $14,450, a grand total for the month ~f $416,150. G. Lindahl is building two, twostory, eight room brick veneer residences ·on Laurel avenue, one at No. 1151 and the other at No. 1161, each · costing $20,000; a permit was issued to C. E. Carlson for a two-story, brick veneer, at 901 Hill road, costing $30,000; to Robert Doepel, for a two-story, 8-room brick veneer, at 1367 Asbury avenue, costing $12,000; to A. W. Paulson, for a two-story, 7-room residence. of stone and timber, at 1479 Tower road. costing $16,000. Other permits were issued to Ernest Benkerk, for a two-story, stone veneer. 8 rooms, at 1336 Scott avenue, costing $14,000; to Thomas Brooks, for a twostory brick vene ~ r, 7 rooms, attac~e~ g-araJle. at 429 Walnut avenue, costmg $20,000; to C. E. Olewine, for a twostory brick veneer, 7 rooms, attac~ed Jlarag-e, at 1417 Scott avenue, costmg $14,000 and to Roy Browning, for a two-story frame of 7 rooms, at 1239 Cherry street costing $11,000. · Story of Main Street in Two Pictures WILMEnE CONTINUES mGH SPEED BUSINESS Twenty-four Permits Issued for $297,280-()ne New Residence to Coat $80,000 There's no stopping Wilmette l When this north shore village stepped out in September and displaye_d building activity a bit unusual for th!s time of the year and thereby made at certain that the Iear 1928 would go down in history as a record breaker, it was not anticip~ted that last month would produce figures even big enough to attract the eye. But what happened in October? Read the figures-$297 ,280-and be startled. They surely are startling in view of the high totals recorded in all the other months of the year with the exception of one-August ran less thaa $100,000. EDthuaiaaiD Aroused C. C. Schultz, Superintendent of Public Works, whose task it is to keep track of the building activity in Wilmette, is displaying enthusiasm thatls contagious. In other offices of the village hall they are talking about the "big ye.a r," which isn't a bit surprising. The basis of comparison, year to year, is interesting but there is no need of going back farther than last year because it has been in the last two years that Wilmette has been establishing records in building activity. Incidentally the figures for October of 1927 Aalt Waa ·are bigger than for the same month of the present year. They are bigger by exactly $30,397, which in the building racket isn't enough to produce a wheeze. And furth ... rmore last month couldn't match up with the previous month of September when the permits issued called for the surprising expenditure of $381,899. But this big figure isn't hard to account for in view of the fact that a single permit that month was for $300,000. This permit was taken out for the construction of the new Wilmette Methodist church at Lake and Wilmette avenues. Twenty-four Permits laauecl The number of permits issued in Octobtr of last year was 34, while for Three sales are reported by Hilt and this year the number totaled 24. Stone of Linden avenue, Wilmette as In explanation of how it happened follows: that Wilmette kept up its record pace B. ]. Kavanaugh has purchased the last month it is necessary to go into residence at the northwest corner of detail. The new Howard school gymEighth street and Ashland avenue from nasium permit accounted for $80,000. John . E. Cawkwell. pecorators have The builders are constructing a new about finished their work and Mr. north wing ~hich will match up with Kavanaugh is ready to move into his the south wing of the building. new home. That business is moving· ahead is Stanley C. Couinbe has sold tht> indicated by the issuance of permits modern Dutch Colonial at 119 Sixth for a new filling stat!on, a new store street to Albert B, Stall of Chicago. and a new shop. The new filling staHorace V. Pearson has sold the resition is to be located on Wilmette avedence at 605 Sixth street to B. Mennue, at the southeast corner of Ridge dum. This home is a white Colonial road, and the owner is L. McLean. A and is located at the northwest corner new brick store is to be constructed of Greenleaf avenue and Sixth: And Now at 725-27 Main street for Frank Meier. L. N. Place was the broker in all The new shop to handle Rowers will three transactions. WILMETTE will shortly have reason to celebrate for a new North-South be built at 235 Ridge road and owned NEW REAL ESTATE VOLUME artery is soo.n to be completed a!ld opened to traffic" Long the bugabo~ by H. Hlavacek. Perhaps of greater importance than ., . E S 1 , · . th of traftic and gncf to motonsts, Mam Street has come out of the rough, . 1Ciofsmg Real sta~e abes, A tsJ 0 h~ Lransfor~ed into a fine thoroughfare of reinforced concrete 52 feet wide. It is anything else aside from the "big 250 t tt e 0 a h. hpahge VC? umt eb Y ·· ued 1 a civic improvement that will give Wilmette pride. (Lehle Photos) (Continued on page 64) 8 erge, w 1c as JUS een sss B. J. Kavanauth Ru. vs Home on Ashland Av.· Hill-Stone Report