Beautiful Modern Residences are Built, Furnished and Financed
by Metropolitan District Realty Trust
| AT LAST Chicago's prospective home owners have come into their own in acquiring the services of the Metropolitan District Realty Trust as home builders. This organization, with offices located in Suite 514, 79 West Monroe Street, Chicago, has started its 1929 building activities in Westchester with construction of ten modern two-apartment buildings, which will be ready for occupancy by September 1. The Suburban Construction Company is the builder, and C. W. Lampe & Company are the architects.In designing the buildings every effort was made to develop a harmonious ensemble that would add beauty and dignity to the new residential community now springing up in Westchester. Old forms of architecture were abandoned and each building was planned along individual lines. Large lots were set aside for each structure, while the building line is 15 feet from the sidewalk, allowing ample space for a lawn and play room for children. The apartment buildings are being constructed in the first addition to Westchester, a short distance south of Roosevelt Road and just to the east of Mannheim Road. Excellent transportation facilities are afforded, the Roosevelt Road station of the Rapid Transit ("L") Lines being a short distance to the North. Paving, sewer and water have already been installed in this new addition, and both electricity and gas will be available by the time the buildings are completed.The apartments embrace the English, Spanish and American types of architecture, with variance in roof design and brick facing enhancing |  their individual attractiveness. Building authorities and others are strong in their praise of the architectural features of all residences built by this company.The interiors of the ten new buildings erected in Westchester leave nothing to be desired by the discriminating housewife, both in beauty and utility. Each apartment contains five rooms and a glazed sleeping porch, laid out so as to give easy access from one part of the home to another and combining into a harmonious living unit. Arched doorways, a gas-burning fireplace, book nooks, a breakfast nook, large airy bedrooms and linoleum-covered kitchen floor are a few of the many features that enhance beauty and comfort.Installation of Red Seal wiring insures plenty of outlets for electrical appliances, while wall lights give the proper facilities for complete illumina- | tion throughout the rooms. Hardwood floors in all the living rooms will enable the housewife to use rugs and runners with good effect.Construction work is very substantial. The large concrete basement is reinforced with steel construction, and the walls are of sufficient thickness to guarantee long life to the building. Approved insulation further insures comfort for the occupants during hot and cold weather. There is ample space in the basement for a recreation and playroom for children. All of the latest appurtenances to the complete modern home will be found in these apartments. These include electric refrigeration, hot water heat, gas ranges and automatic gas water heaters. The Metropolitan District Realty Trust, while placing considerable emphasis on its present activities in Westchester, is also pushing out into other suburban areas where residents of Chicago are seeking the healthful benefits of fresh air and sunshine in establishing homes of their own. Already it has constructed more than one hundred bungalows and apartment buildings in Niles Center and at other points in the beautiful Skokie Valley to the north. In making these new Westchester apartment buildings available to the homeseeker or the investor the Metropolitan District Realty Trust offers an attractive fifteen-year finance plan which has proved economically sound in every detail. For those who are looking to the future and seeking to grow with the great Chicago metropolitan area, this finance plan opens the way to purchase of a home under most favorable conditions. |
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Architect's Sketches of Two of the Ten Two-apartment Buildings Being Constructed by the Metropolitan District Realty Trust in Westchester.
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