The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-20
NEW RESIDENCES
SHOWING TREND
OVER MOUNTAIN
Country Club Section Elk
pected To Take High
Rank As Show Place

With the announcement Sunday by
the Ben Cheeseman Real Estate COM
pany, S34 Brown-Marx building, that
acreage just south of Red mountain
in the vicinity of the new Country
rlub would be divided into lots, the
list of Birminghani's beautiful resi-
dence environs was increased by the
addition Of section, which, its develop
ers believe, will take rank among the
leading show places of the Birmingham
district.
The new development will be known
as Crestline Heights. 1t occupies a
tract which extends on both sides of
the Twenty-seventh street road, just
xlne block east of the first unit of the
lew Country clubs east golf course.
BY the time improvements on the
300-acre tract Of the Country club are
finished at a cost of approximately
$500, 600, indications are that there will
be a large colony Of country homes
and estates dotted over Shades valley
in the vicinity Of the Country club
property. The records of the court
house show that most of this acreage,
except that which has been reserved
for division into lots, has already been
bought by residents who are planning
the construction of large country homes,
at convenient distance from the city
proper.
July 1 is the date on which Coun-
try club officials anticipate that play
can begin on the first unit of the golf
course. The large, concrete swimming
pool will be ready about this time, it
is believed. Tentative plans are also
said to have been drawn for the new
Country club building, which will oc-
clipy knoll, SO situated that piano.
ramic view of both 1S-hole golf courses
can be obtained.
Members Of the Country club and
residents of Birmingham who have been
following with keen interest the prog
ress of the Shades valley, developments
are driving out to the new property on
Highland avenue to Iroquois street, up
Iroquois to Pawnee avenue, and out
Pawnee over Red mountain, every
Sunday afternoon in large numbers.
Electric Lights Available T
The migratory movement into this
new section has received further inn
petus recently with the announcement
that electric lights are now available
on a twe-way service, through Iron
dale and Gate City as well as directly
from the city by the new Country club
and also the arrangements are pend
ing for extension of water mains over
Pawnee avenue to the new property.
With these improvements completed,
members of the Shades valley colony
will have practically all the same city
conveniences as their city neighbors.
Real estate men say that the move
ment of the residence section in Bir-
mingham away from the marts of
trade to the attractive surroundings
and cleaner air of the countryside is
in line with the trend which has been.
noted in nearly all the larger cities,
after they have reached certain pop
ulation mark. That the tendency for
Weather residents to seek homes far
Their and farther out, as the city grows.
will cause extensive developments this
year, not only in the neighborhood of
Crestline Heights, but up the slopes of
Shades mountain, is freely predicted by
those who have studied the development
of Birminghams residence environs and
those of other large cities.