The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-25
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trail Life Insurance company OF
New York, under an FILA mort
gage insurance commitment. FLA
requirements include the setting
aside, beginning the first year, OF
a serve fund for use exclusively
in maintenance, and particularly
stringent requirements cover the
maintenance of tn Handicapped
grounds and protected playground
areas
Spacious Grounds
The site consists of 20 lots, form
ing an area of about two city
blocks in size, located in Oleander,
facing the main highWeS between
Wilmington and Wrightsville beach
and lying between Live Oak Park
way and Hawthorne road. TIL
property is on the crest of a pla-
teau 40 or more feet above sea
level, draining east, south and west,
the divide" in the New. Hanover
county between the Cape Fear ri
yer and the ocean. It is near the
Cape Fear Country club golf course
and not far from the Municipal
golf links. The sponsors yesterday
completed acquisition of the prop
erty from Hugh MacRae and Com
pany, the realty transfer being
handled by Kenneth B. Marshall,
of the Marshall Realty company.
The apartment will fill a long-felt
need in Wilmington for additional
modern rental property, MacRae
declared, predicting that because
of it's beauty and modernity it will
Immediately stimulate residential
growth between Wilmington and
Wrightsville Beach.
The apartments, r r a 6 e d in
what is called the three-and-a-half
and four-and-a-half room units, are
designed, Architect Boney said, for
small families, of M to five per-
sons.
Each of the 70 apartments will
have an entrance hall at the front
and a service hall entry at the
rear, with living room, n and
two bedrooms, bath streamlinec
kitchen, dining room, storage room,
hat and coat closets, clothes clos
cts, and linen closet.
The interior finish will include
oak floors, except in the kitchens
which are to have linoleum floors
and the entrance halls, which will
be of tile. Side walls and ceilings
will be plaster and will be either
painted or papered to suit the ten
ant.
The kitchens will be equipped
with large electric ice boxes, gas
ranges, cabinets, work tables and
utility and grocery storage cup
boards. These facilities will be in
stalled in a new streamlined ar
rangement.
Each apartment is so designed
as to permit the entry of sunshine
during some portion of the day and
each affords cross-ventilation at all
times.
The apartments will be heated
with vacuum steam heat brought
through tunnels from a C e r a !
heating plant. Hot and cold water
is to be furnished each tenant for
kitchen and bath fixtures.
The entrance is from the front
hall into vestibule and then into
a 10 by 17-foot living room. From
the living room the tenants enter
a hall which leads into the kitchen,
dining room and bedrooms.
Colonial in Design
The exteriors of the five build
ings are Colonial in design, using
red brick laid with white joints to
initiate old brick work. Driveways
traverse the site with adequate
parking space near each apart.
ment entrance. The yards are to
be handicapped in the modern style,
with concrete walks, play space
and appropriate shrubs, flowers,
and planting.
The grounds are most spacious,
being 720 long facing the highway
and Ais feet deep. q