Buyers Seeking Two Bathrooms in Every Home
Alfred Leech reports Chicago based AP survey indicating middle class America shifts toward two baths per home. Commercial Discount Corp president notes tie to two cars and two TVs per family as 26 manufacturers from five states report stronger 1955 sales, with 22 percent of new houses having at least one bath and 12 percent two baths amid split level popularity.
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Alfred Leech
Chicago
America
Commercial Discount Corporation
Sidney Feuchtwanger
Feuchtwanger
Dunns Lake Lot Sold to Barnes Family in Iowa City
Dr and Mrs Francis C Dunn of 533 Knollwood SE sold their summer cottage at Lake Macbride to Mr and Mrs Rollin E Barnes of Iowa City. Yuill and Gohmann realtors handled the sale. They also sold three lots at Thirtieth Street and Fourteenth Avenue SE to Theo T Manning builder for houses for the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.
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Francis C. Dunn
Knollwood Drive
Lake Macbride
Rollin E. Barnes
Iowa City
Yuill and Gohmann
Thirtieth Street
Fourteenth Avenue
Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod
Theo T. Manning
Tightening Credit Slows U S Housing Boom In July
Washington report shows July housing starts at 115000 hands down from 129000 in June 1955. Experts see no alarm despite drop as credit tightening and material shortages curb activity. FHA notes backlog remains strong with 100000 new dwellings on file before credit curbs. Norman Mason says we only slowed, not stopped, speed. Government policy shifts expand FHA mortgage insurance for multi family, cooperative, and military housing through 1956.
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Washington
INS
Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS
FHA
Veterans Administration
Norman P. Mason
FHA outlines changes to housing and urban renewal programs
Commissioner Mason announced proposed FHA amendments extending Title I loan terms to Sept 30 1956 relaxing relocation housing rules for urban renewal areas allowing relocation without displacement and lifting limits on commitments for multi family mortgage insurance. He noted amendments signed Aug 11 exclude trailer court mortgage insurance and will study mobile home park financing with industry meetings planned.
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Mason
More Money for Urban Renewal Co op Ownership
Washington report notes changes in FHA insured mortgage limits for apartment projects. The five million dollar cap is raised to twelve and a half million under new congressional terms.
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Ashington
D.C
Congress
Browns House Continued A Colorful Home Tour
The article describes Browns House with detailed room by room decor. It notes a stair wall gallery ending at the top landing and pictures above a telephone ledge. Duck motifs appear in a dining context, and a bachelor apartment is repurposed into bedrooms with provincial draperies and exotic-toned frames.
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Gazette
Tom Merryman
R. V. Browns
Dr. Brown
Hunts Sell Home to Haunspergers on Twenty Second Street
Mr and Mrs John V Haun sperger former address 226 Four teenth street NE have bought the Harold H Hunts home at 425 Twenty second street NE. The Elderly Real Estate Company arranged the sale.
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Harold H. Hunts
John Haunspergers
John V. Haunsperger
Fourteenth Street
Harold H. Hunt
Twenty-second Street
Elderly Real Estate Company
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