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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jul 06, 1941

Page

22

Commonwealth Garage Sells for Over 20000 in City Deal

The Commonwealth Garage at 1415 1417 First Avenue to Kenneth F Childs of Streator Ti. He plans Aug 1 start to remodel as a motion picture theater. The building sold for more than 20000. Second floor leased to Allen Motor Co. for storage and first floor used by Ambulance Service and for guest car storage. Childs also runs the Granada theater in Streator.

Commonwealth Garage First Avenue Kenneth F Childs Streator Commonwealth Annex, Inc Allen Motor Company Commonwealth Apartment Hotel Childs Granada Theater

Newcomer Rentals Move into Meadowbrook Drive SE Home

Newcomers Mr and Mrs F S Ingres from Wauwatosa Wis rent 2231 Meadowbrook drive SE from Mrs yle G Potter. Mr Ingres is sales A Manager at Hall Manufacturing. Lease arranged by Fred E Collard and Company who also handled lease of a furnished apartment at 1560 Fifth Avenue SE to Cedar Rapids Building inspector James H Lilly and his son Gene.

F. S. Ingres Wauwatosa Wis Meadowbrook Drive Yle G. Potter Ingres The Hall Manufacturing Company Fred E. Collard

Better Homes DIRECTORY listing for Cedar Rapids businesses

Directory snippet lists Sanfords Cedar Rapids Gas Co Heinze Electric Co Economy Lumber Co Becker Roofing Co Perpetual Savings & Loan Assn Cedar Rapids Block Co Match & Brookman Lumber Co Limback Lumber Co Nagie Eaton Lumber Co Builders Material Co King s Crown Plaster Co Maresh Sheet Metal Works Kriz Tent & Awning Co Cedar Rapids Fuel Co Home Lumber Co Inter Ocean Reinsurance Co

Equitable Sells House To Drs Rice

The Doctors Bert H and Hulda Rice of 829 Third avenue SE purchased the residence at 2001 Fifth avenue SE from the Equitable Life Assurance Society. The sale was cooperative, facilitated by the Hedges company and Floyd H Knapp. Other local transfers include Mr and Mrs R K Gunsolus buying 348 Twenty-first street NE from George Mraz via Hedges, sale of a bungalow at 946 Center Point road NE to Leonard Blessing, and a lot on Thirty-eighth street NE near First and C avenues NE sold to J Samuel Hoover.

Bert H. and Huldan Rice Third Avenue Fifth Avenue SE Equitable Life Assurance Society United States Hedges Company Floyd H. Knapp R. K. Gunsolus Sixteenth Street Twenty-first Street George Mraz Center Point Road Frank L. Buser Leonard Blessing Thirty-eighth Street First C Avenues J Samuel Hoover Second Ave

Cooperative sale on Second Avenue SE changes hands

The Hawkeye Loan and Brokerage firm and Mrs Anna G. Adams of 210 Twenty-ninth Street NE sold land on Second Avenue SE between Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Streets NE to Robert Meister of 111 Second Street SE. The transaction was a cooperative sale by the Hedges company with AA Doolittle and partners.

Nue SE Hawkeye Loan and Brokerage Company Anna G. Adams Twenty-ninth Street Second Avenue Twenty-seventh Twenty-eighth Streets Robert Meister Second Street Hedges Company A, Doolittle and Company

Mutual Liability Insurance Plans Addition to Iowa Office

The Mutual Liability Insurance Company will start excavation Monday for a one story addition to its Iowa home office at 512 Second Avenue SE. The fireproofed structure will house filing and statistical departments and add 3,000 square feet of floor space with future provisions for two more stories. Max Mildenstein holds the construction contract. Occupancy is expected in three months.

Iowa Mutual Liability Insurance Company Second Avenue SE Max Mildenstein

Kostlan Building to Be Razed for Brick Structure

Traer replaces the four frame Kostlan building on Main Street with a one story brick business block. The Street barber shop remains in front, with an apartment for the Streets in the rear. Lumber from the old building will be reused for a chicken house on the Kostlin farm southwest of town tenanted by Lester Ludvicek. Benjamin Holt, a Californian, invented the caterpillar farm tractor in 1900.

TRAER Kostlan Kostlin Lester Ludvicek

Four Room West Cedar Rapids Model Home

Mr and Mrs Louis Estes built a two feet longer version of a New York World's Fair model at 1915 Johnson Ave NW Cedar Rapids. The four room and bath design features an attached garage, corner and picture windows, ivory walls, gray white woodwork, blue accents, and a fluorescent lighted living area. The basement uses T set steel I beams and raised footings with concrete block foundations.

Wes Fanck Louis Estes Johnson Avenue NW Cedar Rapids Ahemes Zane Estes Wes Panck Davenport

Morehead Buys Frederikson Interest in Local Firm

I L Morehead acquires his former partner J P Frederikson's stake in the Morehead Frederikson company at 217 Dows building. He will continue at the same location operating as the Morehead Construction company.

H. L. Morehead J. P. Frederikson Morehead-Frederikson Company Dows Building Morehead Construction Company

Wayne Boland Sells Lot To Navratil

Wayne C. Boland, ex Cedar Rapids attorney now in Washington DC, sells a lot on Memorial Drive SE between Iowa Avenue SE and Meadowbrook Drive SE to Jerry J. Navratil, 816 Camburncourt SE, via Tait and Wagner Company.

Wayne C. Boland Cedar Rapids Washington, D. C Memorial Drive Iowa Avenue Meadowbrook Drive Jerry J. Navratil Camburncourt Tait and Wagner Company Joseph Sedlacek Central City Seventeenth Avenue Ralph Randakl Third Street F. H Minshall First Avenue E Fourth Avenue SE F. R. Wingert H. L. Haase Thirty-fourth Street

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Commonwealth ‘Garage Tlo Theater Newcomer Rentals Raha Rick Third ST Better Homes Directory Equitable Drs. Rice Ed Soboda Rapids Dial Pella Venetian Blinds Kriz Tent & Awning CO First Street Johns-Manville Scientific Johns-Manville Mutual Liability Insurance Company Raze Kostlan Building Benjamin Holt Interocean By Naomi Doepel FILA Cedar Rapids Block CO 9Th St. SW I. L. Morehead Heinze Nagle-Eaton Lumber Co Seventeenth Street Wayne Boland Navratil C Avenue Carl W. Stuber Mathias Stichen Dyersville Perpetual Savings and Loan Tait and Wagener Company Tenth Street SE Home Owners Loan Corporation Ennis M. Coghlan Seventh Street SE Home Lumber Co., Inc 6Th St Becker Roofing & Insulation Company Fourteenth Ave. SE Perpetual Savings and Loan Association 3Rd Street SE Cedar Rapids, Iowa King's Crown Plaster CO First Ave Philosophy Ray Ena Weil Svart Hatch & Brookman Eighth Avenue SE Fone Ase Sas Aeed Cedar Rapids Gas Co Marion
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