Date Title   Summary
1950 Smith House Sally Smith's home (Ruth and Babe?)
1920 Sullivan House Sullivan House
1920 Metz House Three men in front of Metz House. Probable location is now Somerset Lane

House Northfield house as seen through trees

Gorhom house   Large house, Lucy Gorhams', with attached barn; forest in background
1920 Metz House Five women with an early model Ford
1910 Happ's Garage Garage with sign over door that reads "Studebaker Motor"
1900 Brachtendorf home Mary Brachtendorf's remodeled home; Julia Donavan and Tan picture
1920 Shermer Road church Church on Shermer Avenue with cemetery on side of dirt road
12 January 1924 Sunset Ridge Club Artists' rendering of proposed Sunset Ridge Club 1/12/1924

Dorothy Clark Real Estate Ad for home of Dorothy Clark at 5 Old Hunt Road, visionary, who built Sunset Ridge School

Dorothy Clark Real Estate Ad for home of Dorothy Clark at 5 Old Hunt Road, visionary, who built Sunset Ridge School

Dorothy Clark Real Estate Ad for home of Dorothy Clark at 5 Old Hunt Road, visionary, who built Sunset Ridge School
1900 c Brachtendorf House Pen and in of Lucy Brachtendorf on Willow Road. Same land where Lucy lived for 90 years (near Bracken Lane)
1900 c Brachtendorf House Another shot of Brachtendorf home on Willow Road
1930s Sunset Ridge Road and Winnetka Avenue Aerial photo of Sunset Ridge Road and Winnetka Avenue
1948 Rex Kinsey Rex Kinsey's gas station, which he bough from George Happ in 1948
2010 Carpenter Home carpenter home Ralph R. Carpenter, husband of Ruth Levernier Carpenter, built the French Colonial house at 651 Happ Road in 1937. The home was built in that year for $13,000. Mr. Carpenter, a Landscape Architect, was employed by the Swain Nelson Nursery Co. of Glenview. He served as President of the Northfield Improvement Association in 1940 and was the Village Collector for several years in the 1930's. Look closely and you may see in the background of this photo a structure of the Skokie Valley Electric Line: the framework which upheld the overhead electric cable which powered the train.

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