The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-08-31
BUILD RESIDENCE NEXT YEAR
Many House Are Purchased in Deal
Totaling Over $4,000 and Price Is
Record Paid in Kenosha for Build
ing Site-Making Plans for Home.

z. G. Simmons, president of Simmons
Company. is to have the handsomest
residence in Kenosha and one of the
handsomest in the entire middle west.
IT will be located on Durkee avenue
on the whole city block bounded by
Ohio and Indiana street. For weeks
real estate agents have been taking OPP
tions on property in this block and
today all of the options were taken up
and the land purchased, the purchase
price Of the property being between
fifty and sixty thousand dollars and
it is the record price ever paid for
site for home in Kenosha.
The land is located on the lake
shore and it extends from the lake to
Durkee avenue. The property has a
wonderful stretch of lake shore beach
of more than two hundred feet and it
is one of the highest pieces Of ground
along the eastern limits of the city.
The deal is one Of the largest real
estate deals Of the year in Kenosha
as it represented the purchase Of sew
eral comfortable homes. Among the
properties purchased were the home of
Michael Bode at the corner of Ohio
and Durkee avenue and the homes of
John Willsey, John I. Chester and
Charles A. Shaffer on Chic street. 1t
embraces all of the older properties
on Indiana street facing to the north
and the remaining property on Dur
kee avenue. The most notable sale was
the property of Michael Bode, the
price paid being in the neighborhood
of eighteen thousand dollars.
Plans for the new Simmons home
have not as yet been completed, but
it is expected that work on the cree
tion of the splendid new residence will
be started in the early spring and it
is expected that it will be completed
by the later part of 1917. The land
purchased will be cleared away just as
soon as possible and the houses on it
will be moved to lots, some of them
in the immediate neighborhood. Some
of the houses have already been sold.
81 really can't tell you about the
new house, said Mr.. Simmons after
the deals for the property had been
closed up. eve have thought for a
long time that we would like to live
down Durkee avenue way and I con-
sidered this block an ideal location for
a home We are going to have COM
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tiful grounds can be arranged about it.
| can't say just when the work on
the house will be started, but possibly
we shall have to wait until next year
in order to get the ground cleared and
get all of our plans completed. The
plans are now in the rough, but they
are coming along fine and we hope to
complete the new home next year.
No announcement has been made as
to what disposition will be made of
"Shadow Lawn the beautiful Prairie
avenue home of the Simmons family.
It has been considered one of the real
homes in Kenosha. It is possible that
it will be placed upon the market AMI
be purchased as the home of some
other prominent leader in the business
and social world Of Kenosha.
The purchase Of the property on
Durkee avenue has been the cause of
much speculation among people in the
Durkee avenue section of the city for
the past month. Many people believed
that the property was being purchased
as an addition to the Kemper Hall
property. The price paid for all the
property was in keeping with the
rapid increase of real estate values
in the city.
The new home of the Simmons fami-
ly will be just north of the home of
John NJ. Kehlor and it is expected that
the building of it will contribute much
to the development of South Durkee
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