Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 21 Sep 1939, p. 52

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.WAREHOUSE MOVING - STORAGE move, or sdore your 1iouse.JoId g@odsb. sure WIUJITE 914 Agent AliIId Von Lies 32 Yeara Exoeronce ons North S1aoree by the editor of the "Architectural Forum," is regarded as an authori- tative guide for prospective home builders. The home of L. ,Morgan Yost, architect, at' 616 Meirose avenue, Kenilworth, de monstrates the srnall horne, deignied. for ease of mainten- ance. ýMr. Yost's offies are ini Wil- mette. The home on the northest corner of Kenilworth avenue and 2lst street,, ini Wilmette,' is interesting for' the. manner in whichgarage. and porch are incorporated into a one' story wing. The architect, Beregford Beck, bas his offies'in Chicago. lIn Evanston the P'red C. Stiles home, designed-by White and Weber of Chicago, is an example of the story-and-a-half colonial, while the home of Thomias H. Mullen, design- 4adLby Bertra m Goldberg of Chago, is a well thought out modern design i wood. Patronizei Our Advertisers Vey were 42 per cent of the opinion that the market for .blan .services wilexpect what they cal "excel- lent" mortgage lending conditions the rest of the.year,. ýWhile the' more c onservative ma- jority termed theoutlook "fair," the Chicago bank notes Ithat only 21 out of 355 ,expect. a poor showin g for mortgage transactions: from now on. Majority opinion was that the mort- gage boan demand at the present time is fair, In both Milwaukee and Cook coun- ties the percentage of expectations for improvement over existing mort- gage activity levels- was slightly above the'average for the two states together. The returns which came into the bank showed that 103. of the thrlft .a n hoie fiXiMg isttinS s. in these two states are offering vari- able rates to borrowers today, de- pending on loan terms desired, ratio of property value to amount of lban sought, personal risk and similar elements. The First Federal Savings and Loan of Wilmette is an affiliate of the bank. 3 More Hom~es.to Be soAA'f 01 "S 4eye % i.: ii-;bf lul which had permits amountng to $4,- 108,448. Ini 1938 August was. the largest month of, the year and. in 1937 was exceeded only by Ap ril. Generally however a. seasonal die- dline. occurs in August followed ýby a pick-up. in September. This Au- gust therefore: metinormal expecta- tions. As compared with.August.of last yýrth figures inidicate a decline, the total for August, 1938, having been $4,220,436, but home building on the contrary. shows an increase 'over last year'of 101 homes and $642,429. The amounts to be compared are. 404 homes begun in August of this year to cost $2,421,758 and 303 i August, 1938, for which the 'valuation was $1,779,329. Homes, in July of this year numbered 388 to cost $2,- 508,962. iiàntén i às The leading communities in Au- gust in building of ail types are wide- ly distributed geographically and are found on the North Shore, i the. West and in the Calumet region. Evanston, of which E. M. Goodman is building commissioner, leads with $461,500. Alfred S. Hess of Gary re- ports the exceptional sum of $327,- 683, largely due to home building. MORT, Uiberal Aiu.u.ft Af Lwest Coul Sie.vlew .od Greenwood avenue is the scene of three more new residences for which permits were issued in Wilmette in the past week. R. S. Peterson is building a two- story six-!oom frame residence at 2319 Greenwood, costing $8,000. Don- ald Boothby, of Chicago, is the ar-; chitect and Power Engineering com- pany, huilders *lonvleu. fil. Hornmersand, village clerk, $j48,700; East Chicago, H. C. Bainbridge, building commissioner, $l.23,601; Riverside, G. L. Opper, village man- ager, $114,650; Oak Park, E. W., Hann, permit clerk, $109, 105; Joliet, Hubert C. Todd, building 'inspector,, $104,623; and Berwyn, Anton Pav,, commissioner of public works, $103,- 475. Every one of these communi- ties greatly exceeded its July report. IrAfe e ... of. 58 homes, Ir uoe a weeic-ena ývisit aoe in above.

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