North Hills Estates is a suburban plan in Ross Township just north of West View. It was laid out in 1929, and most of the central part was built up in the 1930s—a period when, surprisingly enough, there was quite a bit of house construction going on in the suburbs. For those who had money, it was considered more economical during the Depression to build a new house, what with the low cost of labor and materials, than to buy an existing one. Thousands of houses sat empty, repossessed by lenders, but meanwhile new suburbs like North Hills Estates filled up with beautiful homes.
This is another article for people who like to scroll through dozens of house designs and marvel at the variety of styles, and at the high quality of almost all the designs.
Like many of these early automobile suburbs, North Hills Estates has some streets of bigger houses and some of more modest houses. We start on Thompson Drive, where some of the bigger houses can be found.
Now we move on to…
…Harden Drive, a street of more modest houses. But though they are more modest in their dimensions, they are just as varied and interesting as their larger neighbors. A modest house does not have to be a pedestrian design.
We’ll come back to North Hills Estates. There are still many more fine houses to document.
One response to “North Hills Estates, Ross Township”
Who was the architect and builder for the homes?
We bought a house here in 2020 – I’ve always loved the neighborhood.