New-York tribune., 1920-03-14
Builders at White Plains Can Care for
About 30 Families i'm New Houses. but
Only Buyers Interest Them-l00
Older Homes i'm Market, Too

tice q renting. The houses are going
up in six Of the best residential dis
tricts Of White Plains, on tho semi
circles of hills that reach from east
to west around the south side of the
town, breaking only where trains Of
the Harlem Division Of the New York
Central Railroad and the Bronx River
pass through. =
The active spots Of the home build
ing campaign going on high above the
center of the town are Lester Hills and
Battle Hill, on the west, and Gedney
Farm on the east. These extremities
also represent the extremities in
prices, Lester Hill houses being among
the cheapest and Gedney Farms among
the most expensive. Put in. another
way, houses on Lester Hill may be pur-
chased at $11,5 500 and those in Gedney
7 Farms at upward Of $22,500. Between
these sections are to be found houses
OF intermediate values, that Is, houses
which are being offered for sale at
$4,000, $16,500. $4,000, $19,50O and
$4,000. These houses will appeal to
the great army Of people who are in
the market. There are houses lin the
White Plains section which are held at
$4,000 and some old houses at S28,0 900
and $30,000
II nine rooms, three baths, quarters
Tor servants and every device known
to modern home builders and domestic
economists do not meet the require
ments OF some folks builders operating
IN the White Plains district will be
glad to erect homes to order In fact.
they are willing to build to order a
mouse as low in cost as $4,000.
At Least $4,000 Needed to Buy
Prodigal folks will envy tho thrifty
IN times like these, because they will
learn before they get far in home
hunting that builders and real estate
!olks Will not be interested in their
difficulties unless they have some
money. With a few thousand dollars.
say $1,000 to $4,000. one may 20 up in
the hill sections to the south of the
ola town Of White Plains and choose
his house. There they are, twenty or
more, any one Of which you can claim
IT you have laid aside as much as.
o.0Oo American dollars and have q posi-
ton or business which will allow
you TO pay l per cent a month of the
second mortgage indebtedness and the
carrying charges.
About $82 month would be the ex-
pense attached to one of the smaller
houses purchased on the lowest margin
acceptable to the builder.
Thirty eight minutes ride from Grand
Central Station on fast-traveline cleo
trio trains, through a beautiful coun-
try dotted with attractive homes rem
!resenting the highest types of country
home construction, will land one in the
heart of historic White Plains. As
the train approaches the town Lester
Hlil may be seen to the left and the
Ridgewood View section to the right.
1t is along Ridgewood and away to
the east that builders are most active
at this time.
Homes on Sacred Ground
Lester Hill is several hundred feet
above the town center, which lies as il
ip basin or valley in the hills. While
mounting the hill, which is of easy
grade, one might think Of the days
when sturdy men of the woods and
towns held that hill against the ad-
vance of the British. At the crest
there is planted war relic in COM
memoration of the valiant Colonials.
Near by are other monuments to COM
memorate the hardships they endured
and the fight they mades They are
little homes, white of front and COW
and cont Portable. They are symbolic
of the principles for which these early
American soldiers fought, because
home ownership was a strong feature
of American life in those days. No
one rented then. The poorest as we'll
as the richest owned the roof which
protected them from wind and weather
There are now about six new houses