St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 57

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH A -ri I SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1969 RAGES 1 im -SSfS. tr Court And Waterfall At Oxford Hill Protect VX ySSSSa? Oord Hill, a Marvin Deuhch deve.opment of apartment IvSW tLjrH I buildings, will be opened visitors for the first time kfS' od.y.V is across the street from the Jewish Community Center west of Lindbergh Boulevard and north of Willow-brook and the Beau Jardin Apartments. There are two segments, one designated for adults only. ytv-- The DeVille Manor, Village Of Three Parks Oxford Hill Apartments Opening One of the homes erected for display in The Village of Three Paries is the DeVille Manor.

The subdivision is to be opened to visitors today. It is on Wiethaupt Road, off Patterson Road, a mile and a half north of Lindbergh Boulevard (Highway 140) in northwestern St. Louis County. This is a Levinson Corp. development.

Opening Of Village Of 3 Parks Closer perspective of one of the buildings in the Oxford Hill development. The design is formal and conservative. The buildings will all have elevators, parking areas in basement areas, as well as on the grounds. Three playground areas have been developed with outdoor basketball courts, badminton, volleyball and a jogging track that winds through the grounds. The grounds Will have bubbling ponds, running streams and waterfalls.

Financing was arranged through Laclede Bond Mortgage Co. as correspondent for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Display apartments have been furnished by Edwin Pepper. A room has been designed for youth activities. The first level of the dub will provide an exercise room and equipment, a steam room for men, and sauna rooms for men and women.

In addition, there will be lockers for men. The upper level is designed as a game or billiard room a room for table tennis tables, a card room for adults, and a meeting room with a fireplace. This room could be partitioned for small private parties. will consist of one and two bedroom apartments, each with walk-in closets, individual storage lockers, and coin operated laundry. Drives and parking areas have been designed to create easy access and maximum protection.

The center of activity will be a two-story club building for residents of both areas. The club will overlook a large pool and patio. Adjacent will be two lighted tennis courts. In an area where one may walk to two groceries, Marvin Deutsch is opening his Oxford Hill Apartment Community today. It is just across the street from the new Jewish Community Center, off Lindbergh Boulevard at Schuetz Road, and just north of Deutsch's Beau Jardin Apartments and the Willow-brook subdivision.

The site is a ridge overlooking the Midland Valley, with quick access to Interstate Routes 70, 40 and 244, as well as to Lindbergh Boulevard. The McDonnell-Douglas plant, Monsanto world headquarters and half a dozen newer industrial park developments are less than five miles in any direction from tfie area. Both neighborhood shops and major shopping centers are only minutes away. The site comprises 32 acres with an elementary school on its western edge. Twofold Development Oxford Hill's purpose is twofold, said Deutsch (1) to pro-v i an area exclusvely for adults known as the Manor section; and (2) to provide a healthful, luxurious atmosphere for families and adults.

The Manor section is self-sustaining and separated from other areas by a wide landscaped boulevard. The buildings have elevators. One and one-half covered basement parking areas and one and one-half outdoor parking areas are provided for each 'unit, giving a total of three. The Manor will have recreational facilities for adult resi-dents only. Facilities will include a large pool and patio, shuffleboard, horseshoes, volleyball, and badminton.

Each unit has two a 1 -i closets, two bathrooms, separate entrance foyer, separate dining room, breakfast area and kitchen. Security, Privacy Security and privacy will he maintained by automatic locking devices on garage doors and remote controlled front door locking devices in each apartment. These devices permit each tenant to admit guests by an electrical signal. Jf7 r3 wy if The village community or clubhouse, which, with the swimming pool, has been completed. It will be used for an office in the initial stages of the project, afterward be turned over do community ownership.

The pool is ready for use, as is an adjoining "Peppermint" play park for children, with the swings and other equipment finished in red and white stripes. Hazelwootl Apartment Displays E. M. Harris is opening today the display units in a new apartment development on Villa Rosa Lane in Haezlwood. There are to be 30 units in the three buildings.

Exteriors are styled in country French, using old brick and black shingle Mansard roofs. Windows are trimmed in bronze-colored metal. Each apartment unit has a living room, dining area, two large bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen, telephone jacks and television outlets. The apartments are carpeted and color coordinated with the 1 1 bui It-ins. I are avacado green or deep gold.

Dark walnut Mediterranean-style cabinets are built into the kitchen. A double-bowl sink, Formica counter tops and tile floors also are used in the kitchens together with frost-free refrigerator, double bowl sink and disposal unit. The activity center has an area for TV viewing, studying, or just relaxing. The model home has a paneled rathskeller with built-in wet-bar, separate reading room and an extra half bath. The upstairs may be divided several ways, with three or four bedrooms, one or two bathrooms and a sitting room adjacenttothe master bedroom.

Center Entry Foyer In the "Manor" a center entry foyer separates a a I dining room from a sunken conversation pit where the step down is guarded by a wrought iron railing. The clubroom, an adjoining, larger activity area, opens outward to a trellised redwood entertainment deck. The garden kitchen, just off the clubroom, has a breakfast area plus its own oversized, serv-through glass panel. The Manor homes may have either three or four bedrooms. The bedrooms ter suite with private bath and large walk-in closet.

The entry foyer separates a dining room from a formal parlor. Delicate wrought iron tracery in the parlor walls provides a view of a mirrored gallery. The "Park" series also has a large family room as part of the indoor-outdoor activity center. The core of the activity center is a fully equipped garden kitchen with special serv-through panel. From the family room, it is a step outdoors onto a trellised redwood entertainment deck.

The "Hilltop" series is a two-story home designed to combine elegance and practicality. Just off the foyer is an elegantly appointed powder room, with a linen closet, From the foyer, one may enter the living gallery, which in turn leads to the activity center. The kitchen and breakfast area open onto a redwood entertainment deck. The kitchen is equipped with wood cabinetry, self-cleaning oven and range, are spacious and closet space generous. The master bedroom suite includes a private dressing area, his and hers closets, and opens through a sliding glass window-wall to the entertainment deck and activity center.

All homes are centrally air conditioned and carpeted. To visit i 11 a of Three Parks," drive North on Highway 140 to Patterson Road, continue on Patterson to Wiethaupt Road, turn left and drive to "Village of Three Parks." Buys 2-Acre Site Special to the Poat-D1patoh ST. JAMES, Mo. Mr. and Mrs.

Edwin H. Lewis, Osage Beach, have purchased a two-acre site from the Forest City Development Co. four miles north of Highway 66 (1-44) on Highway 68. The sale was made by the Charlie Hoelzer Real Estate Co. of St.

James. The Village of Three Parks, on Wiethaupt Road just off Patterson Road a mile and a half north of Highway 140 in north-w St. Louis County, is being opened formally today by David N. Levinson, president of the Levinson Corp. This is a "planned environment" development, one of the earliest approved in St.

Louis County. Homes in the Village will all adjoin three private parks that will be equipped with playgrounds and covered "party pavilions" with barbeque pits. The park areas will provide abundant space for family out-i reunions, neighborhood ball games and kite flying. Utilities lines all go underground. The Levinson Corp.

has completed development of the first park, A private clubhouse, the "Village Club," also has been completed. Located amid seven towering cottonwood trees, and elevated above ground level by piers, the Club lounge has a free-standing fireplace, rising to exposed rough hewn cedar beams. View of Park From under the Oriental cathedral roof of the clubhouse, a panoramic view of Cottonwood Park focuses first upon a large modular swimming and wading pool. The pool, which is completed and ready to use, has spacious lounging decks and is surrounded by a a dark stained cedar picket fence. A winding path leads from the pool through Peppermint Playground, a fully equipped children's play area located to permit supervision from the pool area, to a large covered party pavilion with masonry barbeque pit.

"Village of Three Parks" is near two shopping centers, Florissant Meadows and Patterson Plaza, and is in the Hazel-wood School District. The Cold Water Elementary 1 is across the street. Easy access to major highway arteries, i a 140. 1-270, and 1-70, places this only minutes away from most everything in the St. Louis area.

Four Homes Open Four famished model homes, a for inspection, will be opened at 10 a.m. today. Twenty-one homes under construction include Colonial, i n-cial, Spanish, English Tudor, Mediterranean and Rustic Contemporary designs. The "Terrace Series" will be available with either three or four bedrooms, each provided wiUi generous closet space. The master suite in this design has a walk-in closet and separate bathroom.

A separate entrance foyer adjoins a living room, and leads to the indoor-outdoor activity center. The activity center, which includes a kitchen and family room, opens through continuous glass panels to a landscaped patio. As in all "Village of Three Parks" homes, the family room and kitchen form an open space, but still have a feeling of separateness. The garden kitchen, with self-cleaning oven and range, double bowl stainless steel sink and i a 1, has Patios or balconies in every gas range with separate broiler, Art For An Entrance The entrance to San Luis, E. M.

Harris's new South St. Louis County subdivision, has a bas relief of bronze in lava stone, adobe and Spanish tile, depicting King Louit IX, after the statue in front of the St. Louis Art Museum Rudolph E. Torrini, professor of fine arts at Fontbonne College, did the piece, first modeling it in clay, then using a plaster cast to mold the brome, and simulating weathering of the bronze by an acid bath to give it a green cast. Housing Planner To Speak On Building Developments apartment will furnish a view of exhaust hood and garbage dis- landscaped grounds.

The public areas of all the buildings will have wallpaper and carpets. The rest of the community poser. The dining area Is separated from the living room by a Mediterranean-style room divider. All closets have antique white, louvered doors. Hallways are covered with washable wall fabric having a provincial pattern.

Stairways Special to the Post-Dispatch precast concrete systems. 'Infill' programs can build four are carpeted. Wrought iron rail- BOSTON, Mass. The latest ings and banisters enhance the Hevelooments in the battle to lnits in a tow-story building in hallways. eliminate urban blight will high- nine weeks and offer new low- Villa Maria is in a wooded the J969 prestressed Con- ncome housing to neighborhood area.

There is space between crete jnstilute convention here residents without the trauma of eacflounaingiorcniarens g9 Sheraton-Boston playgrounds. This is in the Ha- zelwood school district with the re-locating." 'Infill' programs such as we are currently working on means Garrett Elementary School just btuii, a leading new eng. excavation, grading and utilities un the block. land architect and planner, is installation in two weeks, a full To visit Villa Maria, drive scheduled to address the more fell I i 4 szf- i lit si I i.v yyz. i west on Brown Road to Dunn than 1000 industry leaders ex-Road and left on Dunn Road to pected to attend the four-and-a prestressed concrete shell erected on the site within a day, and six weeks to complete the interiors.

This means in about two Villa Rosa Lane and leu to Villa half-day convention and reveal Maria. details of his firm's efforts to months, an eyesore vacant lot which no one would invest in has become an attractive new home for four needy families in probelm areas. "Prestressed and precast con-crete makes these quick-construction programs feasible be-cause wall systems, complete meet low-income housing needs in Boston and Lowell, Mass. Stull, whose office is here has been active in a program le-signed to cope with growing inner-city housing problems by building rapid-construction fouriflats on scattered vacant Jackman's Opens South County Store Jackman's Fabrics opened its third store last week. It is at 5529 South Lindbergh Boulevard, at Tesson Ferry Road.

The arrangement is similar to that of the other two stores, which are at 1234 North Lindbergh Boulevard and at 921 Locust Street, downtown. A large selections of fashion fabrics and accessories is maintained. There also are a notions department, a bridal boutique, and a pattern department with selections from all major pattern collections. richly detailed wood cabinetry with a i a 1 serv-throuah lots. Previously this approach th window and door frames, was felt to be unprofitable for can be delivered on the work, builders.

i and constructed into ft "If we are to cope with the complete building shell in as lit- growing housing problems a tie as seven and one-half hours' the urban center," Stull said, and you can lock the doors "we must seriously explore and windows to eliminate equip- practical solutions such as the ment theft Furthermore, the 'infill program which utilizes unused property becomes tax-, modern industrial techniques, producing income for local gov- including new prestressed and eminent" gpanei for outdoor dining Apartment Buildings At Villa Maria The "Piirkseries'of houses One of three 1 0-unit apartment buildings by E. M. Harris visitors today. Each unit has two bedrooms, bathroom, kitchens with built-in vailahl with either three or in a new development off Dunn Road on Villa Rosa Lane separate living and dining rooms, four bedrooms, includes a mas- in Hazelwood. Harris has opened the display units to appliances.

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