1890   Jefferson Township annexed to City of Chicago, in anticipation of the 1893 World’s Fair.

1899   Westward Ho Golf Course, with eighteen holes, established on Gale’s land west of Narragansett Avenue. It became the Galewood Golf Club in 1922.

1912   Grand Avenue streetcar extension to Harlem Avenue encourages middle class residential development along with a booming commercial strip.  Rutherford-Sayre Park established, field house constructed in 1916.

1920s   The automobile leads to the growth of the bungalow belt in Chicago, our neighborhoods are on the western edge of this development.  Wood framed houses are no longer allowed, replaced by the brick Chicago Bungalow, Tudor, Norman, Georgian and other blends of romantic styles.

1925   Amundsen Park, named for the Norwegian polar explorer, established by the Northwest Park District after petitioning by the North Austin Improvement Association. Field house not constructed until 1954

1926   Lovett and Locke Schools built in Gothic Revival/Collegiate style.