Tulip Time Beauty in Cedar Rapids Yards
Residents note Cedar Rapids yards blossoming in tulip time and lilac season with secluded outdoor rooms and flower hedges creating privacy for sun baths, meals, and picnics on terraces. Landscape architect Francis A. Robinson praised local progress after touring residential areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulip
Cedar Rapids
Newcastle
Francis A. Robinson
Des Moines
Community Home Planning Institute
Coe College
Five Vernondale Homesites Bought By Bruce McKay
Bruce McKay of McKay Construction purchased five Vernondale lots from Tait and Wagner for seasonal home sites. Two plots lie on Thirty second street SE and three on Soutter avenue SE.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vernondale
Bruce McKay
McKay Construction Company
Tait and Wagner Company
Second Street
Soutter Avenue
Center Point Road
Northwood
Ralph G. Hoskins
Third Street
Knoll Street
Dalewood Drive
Hatta Hansen
Los Angeles
Ralph W. Grove
First Avenue NE
Better Homes DIRECTORY listing Cedar Rapids suppliers
Directory style item listing local businesses in Cedar Rapids including fuel insulation lumber roofing paint electrical services banking and household goods providers such as Suttons Cedar Rapids Fuel Co Brinkmann Insulation Co Economy Lumber Co Central Roofing Perpetual Savings and Loan Iowa Steel and Iron Works Montgomery Ward full list reads like a local commerce index of firms serving home improvement and utilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sutton’s
Cedar Rapids Fuel Co
Brinkmann Insulation Co
Economy Lumber Co
Central Roofing Co
Perpetual Savings and Loan Association
Cedar Rapids Paint Supply Co
Frank Fried
Limback Lumber Co
Illinois-Iown Gas & Electric Co
National Life Insurance Co
Broadstone Furnace Co
Hazewinkle
Heinze Electric
Klinger Wallpaper and Paint Co
Iowa Steel and Iron Works
Hatch & Brookman Lumber Co
Messinger & Sons
Sanford’s. Castle’s
Left Water Service
Montgomery Ward & Co
Peoples Savings Bank
Haege Roofing and Insulation Company
Advance Service
Restyling Houses Topic in Next Home Plan Talk
Prof. Thomas K. Fitz Patrick head of architectural engineering at Iowa State College in Ames will speak Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Coe chapel on Restyling and Remodeling the Existing Residence. He fills a vacancy after Prof. Allen H. Kimball's death and is the ninth of ten speakers in the Home Planning Institute series.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas K. Fitz Patrick
Iowa State College
Ames
Coe Chapel
Allen H. Kimball
Home Planning Institute
Coe College
Fitz Patrick
United States
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT
Clemson Engineering College
South Carolina
Rice Institute
Houston
Texas
Iowa
FitzPatrick
Carl Boester
Purdue University
Research Foundation
Campus Grill Sold in Exchange to Hale
The Campus Grill at 1125 First Avenue SE sold by C A Nelson to L E Hale of 517 Fifth Street SE. Hale now in possession. sale closed through White's Business Exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Campus Grill
Nelson
L. E. Hale
First Avenue SE
C. A. Nelson
Fifth Street
White’s Business Exchange
Master Plumbers Of Iowa Meet In Cedar Rapids
The Iowa Master Plumbers association gathers at the Montrose hotel in Cedar Rapids Monday and Tuesday to discuss material shortages apprentice training and industry issues. Attendance is expected to reach 150 with officers led by President Telford Laren and Vice President Don Stroh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Master Plumbers Association
Montrose Hotel
Cedar Rapids
Telford Laren
Iowa City
Don Stroh
Des Moines
Frank H. Pierson
Fairfield
Harold L. Snyder
Hartley
George Palmer
States
Master Plumbers
Thomas E. Martin
Arthur Todd
Chicago
United Association of Journeymen Plumbers
Walter L. Bierring
Iowa
Nathan Howard Gist
Leominster
Mass
OPA
Floyd Whittington
George MacDonald
William R. Brookman
Illinois Association
George Larsen
Washington, D. C
Rapoport Family Purchases First Street Property
The Quaker Oats company sells a service station and parking lot on First Street NE to Aaron Rapoport and Sons. Malcolm V. Bolton and company arranged the sale and lease back to Standard Tire. The Riverside Inn site, razed after World War I, previously hosted the hotels Riverside Inn Southern and Brown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quaker Oats Company
Aaron Rapoport and Sons
First Street
Malcolm V. Bolton and Company
Standard Tire Company
Al’s Furniture Store
Riverside Inn
Old Southern
Brown Hotel
Professor Kollman Buys Mt. Vernon Home and Two Lots
Prof and Mrs Eric C Kollman purchase the house and two lots at 617 Seventh Ave NW Mt Vernon from Mr and Mrs Byron A Smith of New Boston Illinois. Possession subject to tenant rights under rent control regulations. Sale handled through Fred E Collard and company. Kollman faculty at Cornell College.
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Eric C. Kollman
Seventh Avenue NW
Mt. Vernon
Byron A. Smith
New Boston
Ill
Fred E. Collard and Company
Prof. Kollman
Cornell College
Residential rented buildings share set at 70.3 percent
The report notes that of the total residential rented buildings in the country, 70.3 percent are rented. Details on regional distributions or trends were not provided in the fragment.
Housing stock split by building type summary
Cent of houses makes up the majority with eighteen point three percent of the total two flats.
John Flenders Sell House to Halversons
John Flenders of 914 Twenty-sixth street SE sold their house at 1331 B avenue NE to Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Halvers on, 1315 Elmhurst drive NE. Possession to be given about June 15. The sale was facilitated by Yuill and Gohmann with Tait and Wagner company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Price
Troy Mills
Thirty-fifth Street
Oakland Avenue
Clarence Glee
Tait and Wagner Company
Doolittle and Company
Kenneth Borschel
B Avenue
K Avenue
Dean Newman
Yuill and Gohmann
Charles R. Averill
Cottage Grove Avenue
Thirty-second Street
Mound Avenue
Vernondale
Ida S
Henrietta Boettcher
Third Avenue
H. L. Davis
John Flender
Twenty-sixth Street
Leonard Halverson
Elmhurst Drive
Ed Pad«zensky
Seventh Avenue
Gust A. Thomas
Sixth Street
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Perry West
Blake Boulevard
Gazette-Blumenshine
L. L. Dolson
Meadowbrook Drive
Better Homes Directory
Marion
First Avenue
Cedar Rapids, Ia
Luster
Std Ave
Tnd
Silicon
Soboda
Master Plumbers of
Central Roofing & Insulation Co
Third Avenue SE
Dial
America
Gazette
Third Ave
Rapoports
First St
Frank Frieds
3Rd Ave
Paramount Theater
Perpetual Savings and Loan
G.I. Home Loans
S.E
Jowa
Prof
Eric Kollman
John Flenders
Halversons
Chicago and North Western
The
Chicago and North Western Railway System
National Garden Institute
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