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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1945
Page
8
The Reams at 1396 Elmhurst Drive NE built a compact two bedroom home in 1942 with forward looking postwar features. Basements include a paper and clothes chute, garage access, and a heat system. the L shaped kitchen uses folding doors, built in ice, and high storage. Bedrooms over the garage, a dressing area, and a den slash sunroom evolve as needs change.
Local directory entry lists companies in home building and improvement including glass and paint Broadstone Lumber Co J. F Heathel Co Montgomery and Wards Sears Roebuck and Co Peoples Savings Bank Perpetual Savings and Loan Assoc Henze Electric Hawkeye Lumber Co Becker Roofing Co Hedges Company Ilinois Iowa Gas and Electric Co J F Friedl Home Insulation Messinger & Sons Klinger Wallpaper and Paint Co Hatch Brookman Lumber Co May include additional trade names for kitchen bath and furnishing firms with contact details and product lines
An interior description details a hall linen closet built in shoe racks, two ward robe wardrobes, and a nearly square bedroom with cross ventilation. The living room offers a ventilating shaft linked to the kitchen, sunlit triple windows, ivory draperies, bleached wood furniture, and a light filled layout with a mail chute and switch controlled entry light.
The Cedar Rapids Transfer and Storage company purchased two vacant lots on A avenue NE across the viaduct from its property at 400 A avenue NE. The land intended for parking was bought via Illinois Central railroad but titled in the name of the Dubuque and Sioux City railroad company.
Clare R Marshall sells the Crescent drive SE residence to Milo A Chehak for 36000 dollars through Yuill and Gohmann. Possession Sept 1. The Georgian brick home with landscaped grounds features five bedrooms three baths a sleeping porch and a rear screened porch with a living room dining room breakfast room kitchen library and included carpeting draperies stove and refrigerator.
Mrs Milo Bezdek of 624 Fourteenth Street SE purchased the house at 1615 Fourth Avenue SE from the T G McDermott estate. The investment purchase was facilitated by Bedel Nissen Company.
A. C. Johnson 421 Dunreath drive NE sells stock and fixtures in a grocery at 921 Third street SW to Mr and Mrs Ralph J Pire 624 Ninth street SE. Sale handled through Lundquist and company.
The residence at 2403 First Avenue SE leased by Mr and Mrs Roy Doty moved to Peoria Illinois is purchased by Mr and Mrs William Malek formerly of Mason City. The property was owned by Miss Inga B Tapper 348 Forest Drive SE. The sale was a cooperative one by Lundquist and Company and the Hedges Company. Mr and Mrs William Schultz sold their house at 243 Highland Drive NW to Mr and Mrs E J Hembern 1531 Fifth Avenue SE through Lundquist and Company. The same realtors closed sale of the house at 3021 Bever Avenue SE owned by Mrs Helen Schwirtz to Mr and Mrs Carl H Sadilek 1715 Highth Avenue SE.
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