Higley Homestead to be Marketed in Cedar Rapids
Plans disclosed last week show Miss Helen Higley arranging a new smaller residence at 840 Seventeenth Street SE to accompany the Higley family homestead at 860 Seventeenth Street SE. The new English style brick building will be a two and two one bedroom apartment complex with an attached garage, designed by Ernest Kennedy and built by McKay Brothers Construction for the Higley family dating to 1849.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer A. Higley
Seventeenth Street
Cedar Rapids
Helen Higley
Elmer Tuigley
McKay Brothers Construction Company
Miss Higley
Fred M. Higley
Erty
Mount Vernon Road
Bever Avenue
Ernest Kennedy
Minneapolis
Higley
Mount Vernon Avenue
Second Avenue
Windermere
Wallace Boyson Building a Home
Construction starts this week on a two story six room frame home for Mr and Mrs Wallace Boyson at 2617 Country Club Parkway SE. The contractor is E D Monilaw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace Boyson
Country Club Parkway SE
E. D. Monilaw
Dining Room Welsh Cabinet Is Removable
A five room Colonial bungalow at 205 Twenty-first Street NE features a removable built-in Welsh cabinet in the dining room. The Hagen couple plans a quick rental or resale, with a stone terrace, rear fire place, and landscaped yards on an upsloping corner lot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred .M. Hagen
Twenty-first Street
Fred M. Hagen
Hagen
Robert S. MclIntyre
Better Homes DIRECTORY features and grand kitchen design notes
A home styling feature lists suppliers like Williams Hunting Co and Economy Lumber Co alongside Cedar Rapids Gas Co. The article highlights white kitchen finishes, a ship wheel dining room light, and space-saving ideas such as a breakfast table that folds into an ironing board cupboard. A built in garage recess, basement access, and future finishing plans are described.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Maurine
Harry Cocker Breaks Ground For Building
Harry Cocker, famed builder of the Windermere apartments at 205 Fourteenth Street SE in cooperation with H. C. Jensen in 1936, has broken ground for construction of a six apartment house adjoining the original complex.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Cocker
Windermere
Fourteenth Street SE
H. C. Jensen
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Thompson
Maurine
Hagens
Home Lumber Co
21St St
Home Lumber Company, Inc
Sixth Street
Nagle-Eaton
Suburban Gas CO
1St St. NE
Naomi Doebel
Knotty Pine
Sanford
National Association of Real Estate Boards
United States
Canada
THE
Cedar Rapids Real Estate Board
Better Homes Directory
Williams & Hunting Co
Economy Lumber Co
Home Lumber Co., Inc
Sanford's Suburban Gas Co
Wisconsin Lumber
Nagle-Eaton Lumber Co
Maresh Sheet Metal
King’s Crown Flaster Co
Cedar Rapids Gas Co
Wisconsin
Ava
Dial
FHA
King's Crown Plaster CO
First Avenue
Andersen
Maresh Sheet Metal Works
John Stanek
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Toe Acising
Mle
Dody
First Street
Klinger
Second Ave
Cedar Rapids Cas CO
Third Street
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