WESTCHESTER, the multi-million dollar suburb of Greater Chicago has been built into the metropolitan picture by a number of the leading community developers of this area. Their handiwork reflects immense credit upon their reputations. Among the realty organizations taking part in this intensive development of Westchester are H. W. Elmore & Company, the Harry Auspitz Company, the H. M. Cornell Company and theWilliam Zelosky Company. The first named of these firms has been busy at 31st street; the two following companies have completed and sold out large subdivisions at 22nd street, while the last mentioned has carried on extensive operations north of Roosevelt Road. The contribution which the Metropolitan District Realty Trust has made to the upbuilding of Westchester is dealt with at length elsewhere in these pages and some of the many fine homes and apartment buildings erected by the Westchester Real Estate Improvement Corporation are pictured on other pages. Leading all others in the development of Westchester, however, is George F. Nixon & Company. The work of this famous realty organization in the wonder suburb of the West Side of Chicago has been nothing short of phenomenal! Second to none as a great, efficient, smoothly-functioning business entity today the George F. Nixon organization bestrides the real estate world of Chicago like a Colossus. Its wonderful achievements in Westchester; are the crowning triumph of a long line of highly successful developments. Nixon's work in Westchester will stand as a highwater mark of great community-building for a long time to come. It would take a firm as expertly organized as this giant among metropolitan realty concerns to create such a super-development as is represented by the Nixon accomplishment in Westchester. In a comparatively short period of time, a whole shining new town has been built "from the ground up." A million dollars worth of Nixon-built homes has created accommodations for hundreds of families and has given a tremendous impetus toward the future, steady growth of the new suburb. Through the good offices of the Nixon Company, another great home-building program | aggregating a million and a half dollars in value is just getting under way. The quality of Westchester's development under the Nixon auspices has left nothing to be desired. Zoned, restricted and improved in accordance with the highest modern standards, the village is the very apotheosis of the ideal American home community.  If anything essential to perfect living conditions has been left out of the Nixon program in Westchester, it has never been noticed. The omission, if any, would be harder to locate than the man Diogenes was seeking with a lantern. Everything has been thought of and nothing that will mar the scene and its, comfort has been permitted to enter into the picture. There are no factories» no wooden buildings or fences, nothing unsightly or unsafe on the Nixon subdivision. Restrictions provide uniformity all through the property. Certain logical streets are given over to business. Nowhere will one find a beautiful residence sandwiched in between a couple of flat buildings. There is a pleasing symmetry of building design on each street, apartment structures on one, bungalows on others, each type of structure being | placed properly among others of its kind. It is an ironclad provision in the restrictions that all forms of construction must be absolutely fireproof. Adequate protection on all sides of a building are secured by virtue of the fact that every single lot on the Nixon properties is an oversized one. The minimum lot frontage is forty feet on these; many of them measure up to fifty-five feet. The average lot frontage on most ordinary subdivisions is only thirty feet. Westchester is a smokeless community. Fresh air is plentiful as befits a village of homes. So rapidly is the growth of the place proceeding that from week to week some added feature like the new park or lighting system changes the appearance of the village. There are miles of wide streets bordered with beautiful homes. The artistic garden landscapes and large playgrounds make the general view a delight to the beholder. Handsome community edifices such as the new school and community centers and churches will further enhance the appearance of Westchester. Convenient rapid transit and railroad stations render all sections easily accessible from Chicago. Together the Nixon and Zelosky developments in Westchester total 1,940 acres. H. W. Elmore & Company has 160 acres, the H. M. Cornell Company 80 acres and the Harry Auspitz Company 20 acres under development. The word "development" as used by the George F. Nixon Company has no loose meaning. Specifically, it is defined in their usage as meaning that all improvements are either in or going in, in short, it denotes that the property is really being developed in the fullest sense of the word. It would be hard to overstate the advantages which George F. Nixon & Company have conferred on the public of Greater Chicago by the remarkable work accomplished in Westchester. Because of the initiative of this notable organization, residences for thousands of Chicago's home-seeking citizens have been made available in a region where real living may be enjoyed and where a house is not only a good home but a capital investment as well. |
On the facing page (page 11) was a full page about with the photographs of the officials of the George F. Nixon & Company.
Pictured are:- the three down the left side, top to bottom::
- William C. Nissen, General Sales Manager
- Roy M. Pederson, General Sales Manager
- Lee A Blank, General Sales Manager
- the three down the right side, top to bottom:
- M. H. Bidez, General Sales Manager
- Joseph H. Cenek, General Sales Manager
- Otto Taeterow, General Sales Manager
- top center row, left to right
- Herbert J. Lorber, Vice President
- George F. Nixon, President
- A. Lawren Brown, Director of Public Relations
- middle row, left to right
- Howard R. Roberts, General Sales Manager
- Albert Nixon, Construction Manager, Westchester Real Estate Improvement Corporation
- Richard L. Sonnenshein, Secretary and Head of Legal Department
The photograph at the long table was taken at the Nixon's Producers Club Banquet, May 6, 1929. The champion of all champions, Babe Ruth, and Lou Gehrig were present and in the picture.
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