Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 26 May 1938, p. 65

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* in i5uuazng. An increase of 10 per cent in tthe amount of new construction 15shIoivîi- by the survey for April of building in the Chicago suburban region nmade: by the Greenebaum -Investmt cti.oll. pany, thé figures 9cornpared .beý.ing $2,235,828- for April. and, $2.028.093) for March4 This appears to be. less than should be expected for the' sea-> sonal percentage of increase of April over March and the April totaF i.s about one-half of. that -of last: ve;tr which amounted to'$4,424,193. Btter Than Indic;ated As often. happens,. somne analysis of these figures is necessary to un dertand 'the real status" of suburbati building. -It is. actually. betteri thai the figures standing alone seem to indicate. April of last year was' thr Iargest month in the record of this survey, which begins with January 1931 and rcords ounly' oileother for million~ dollar month. To compare :any other month with April, 1937 is therefore mîsl'eading, for it was a month so unusual as to be quite ont of line. It had flot only a startliîig volume of home construction but nearly a million dollars' worth of ex- ceptional building, and also included $173,000 which one community was late in reporting. April of this yeai 't r j ($4 This Early Amnerican homne is note being erected in Indian Hill Estates West, Wilmettc, as a Demionstration House. Designed in the offices of W. C. Huggins, Home E2ngineering, 1150 Wilmette avenaue, Wilmnette, this home will be prese,îted to the Wulic through thus organisation. Entrance to the reception hall is W. W Hni tioin ined through an Early Amnerican V*~ ~ 1ns.on rprse~d uInr. the zas2< of nic is i U ~ .. i Lewis T. Dodds Announces Sales in, Northfield A rea Lewis T. Dodds announces the fol- ini 1936-a year in which great build- concrete, ireproot, oft course, and Mr.i-iolmes bas been a resident of Bear,. liilc-or * ing progress wvas mnade. consists of living room, study, powde?' the North Shore for over twenty Two acres for Peter Brachtendorf Sharp 'Decline room, dining roomi, breakfast rooni years and cornes to the Kenilworth on Skokie boulevard, to Elmer IHol- Hope for suburban building year and kitchen, where one may "cook Realty cômpany with an experience dorf is centered upon the construction of. with the gas turned off," "freeze with covering the. real estate, real- estate homes. Comparative, figures show heat" and do miany other things-that mortgage and banking field. Residence lot on Lockwood avenue * that home construction wilI have to a few years ago were dreams. For niany years he was connected near Williow, to,.Harold Berger of take greater strides if this year is to The second floor. is composed of with the Continental Illinois National Wilmette., * equal last, but also that it is far ahead three bedroorns and Master's. suite, bank and also was an officer' in the An acre homesite on Drury' lane of 1936 when the home building boôni with necessary baths in glass. Adjoin- Union Bank of Chicago, later be- for Herbert Nelson to TonsF . - . .. -,-.-.__ _Î-11-1 i rnnn- re9aurfh. M r i-ni ec zt t i.. S nI5 Thomas

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