A Modern Residential Townsite - Woodmar
Chicago: W.B. Conkey Company, 1925. First Thus. Quarto; 16pp (unpaginated); illustrated with intertextual drawings ('plan', 'typical residence street, etc.) and maps; 3 full page half tones of scenes on Little Calumet River, 11 1/2" x 18" color schematic of the 640 acre 'Woodmar Town Site' development. The tan wrappers are faded with edges chipped with loss (no text affected. The upper wrapper has a color illustration of an arts and crafts-style cottage over line drawings of smoke-billowing factories and the slogan 'Out of the Smoke Zone into the Ozone,'. Item #22861
Uncommon sales brochure for Woodmar, 'a residential section of the finer sort' proposed to be built on a 640-acre townsite to serve the Calumet Region. Woodmr emerged in the mid-1920s as Hammond, ILL.'s most ambitious residential development—envisioned to rival the prestigious North Shore suburbs of Chicago. It was designed as a "country club district" catering to upper and upper-middle class households combining landscaping, zoning, and stylish architecture to create an aspirational neighborhood. Though financial challenges curtailed the full vision, its legacy endures in its preserved homes, parkways, and the still-standing Tudor-style Country Club.
Price: $100.00