Rosemary, I stumbled upon your post looking up information about Ottawa Hills. A well-loved, hit movie, I might be the only one in the States who is still leery about this Melvyn Douglas character. The veterans’ club estimated they would lose between five and seven thousand on the promotion. Thanks for the story about the home that I and my siblings grew up in. For that reason, I will fixate on my previous digging, my research and allow my mind to roam in directions the World-Herald most likely will not be covering. He started development that year, as reported by The Toledo Times: Landscape architects, city planning engineers, landscape gardeners, and other experts, backed by an army of workmen equipment with the latest machinery and tools have been steadily at work on the tract for over a year. Upper Crust Pioneers, shall we say. City officials would later respond that the buffer agreement expired in 1974. The one built for the movie was similar in style, but different floor plan. They wanted modern. Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your browser. I love this house too! I will say, some replicas I spied resembled the Blandings’ home and others did not. My image shows how the area looks today from the same angle. I began a preliminary search on the property, just to make sure there wasn’t anything hinky in Ms. Naughtin’s story line. A cursory inspection of the property reveals the scale on which the improvements are being made. Underwood’s catchline was “Every Lot a Scenic Spot.” Promoted for being outside of the city limits, meanwhile touted for its proximity “just west of Fairacres—Omaha’s finest residential section” and as being close to Omaha University (now UNO) and Underwood Grade School. Recently, I bought some land with the intent to build my retirement/dream home. New Under Construction in Schroeder’s Underwood Hills Addition….72nd and Underwood Avenue. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.2 males. 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A once gorgeous Deco style three story building that had a huge well known lantern that shone off of its corner. E. H. Close himself lived in this plat in one of the first homes built in the Village.[11]. Not intending to live in the home, she had purchased the 72nd Avenue house without knowing about the famous movie or the story. [6], Ottawa Hills is located at 41°40′11″N 83°38′24″W / 41.66972°N 83.64000°W / 41.66972; -83.64000 (41.669750, -83.640068). I read and I read and my eyes must have sharpened with growing obsession, for this wasn’t one of Mr. Cross’s tricks. I've been searching through floor plans -- THOUSANDS of floor plans -- and there are only a few that I would consider building. Thanks for all your work and the fun presentation! Dave. 25.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. There were 1,696 households, out of which 38.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.0% were married couples living together, 5.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.9% were non-families. I wish I had the time to do the research you do but since I cannot, I wonder if you would look into this one? August 31, 1947. With reservations, as if he were setting me up, I slid the letter out of the folding with a sigh and airily glanced down at the words before me. I had to smile. I would love to show you around. Would you? Last summer I wrote about this 1917 architectural design for a white pine house costing $12,500. When I happened upon L. F. Crofoot’s obituary from 1950, I was reminded of the 412 North Elmwood Road address, listed as his place of death. I DO want this house! The Willeys pose in front of 502 North 72nd Avenue. Still from the movie. Ultimately 73 Dream Houses were completed. The per capita income for the village was $58,846. You could see that house out his back yard windows. ‘But we couldn’t very well live there and operate our business in Council Bluffs.’ The couple owns a tourist camp at 429 North 37th Street, where they make their home.” Huh? Years ago, when I had first hired Mr. Cross to address my messes in the detective office, attend to telephone calls and handle my mailings and such, he placed an opened, pale blue envelope on the ol’ tanker in a la-de-da manner. ), garden porch, sleeping porch..wow! By all accounts, the Crofoots truly lived in 502 North 72nd Avenue. Previous to the movie’s release, the publicity department of RKO delivered architect’s blueprints of a four-bedroom Colonial Revival to local builders across the country, “asking that they build houses as near to the specifications of the movie house as conditions would permit.” Builders were allowed quite a bit of freedom, it would appear.