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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1938
Page
19
Cedar Rapids housing shows a surge with 83 new permits in the first half of 1940 totaling 289,760 dollars. Remodels also rise with 512 homes upgraded in six months costing 110,714 dollars, reflecting a shift to home ownership as security and happiness.
Thompson photographs show a home at 252 Twenty-fifth Street Drive SE with top view arches adding charm. The living room dining room hall reveal copper rose carpeting and oak leaf wall design with pastel green tones, while the kitchen shelves and refrigerator are arranged for easy reach by Mrs J Harold Ferguson.
By Naomi Dobbel, the Ferguson residence at 252 Twenty-fifth Street Drive SE is a compact Regency Colonial style house built to maximize wall space and concealed storage. Mrs. Ferguson planned the layout to ease housekeeping with antique pieces from before the Civil War and a copper rose living room, green linen drapes, and brass accents enhancing a Federal and Colonial mix.
The couple argued over a porch request by Mr. Ferguson prompting a roof expansion that could cover a second room. His wife suggested the attic roof design could also form a den behind the living area and the screened space.
Hall Manufacturing installs two air conditioning units at Yocom funeral home in Marion and in its own building at Thirty first street and First avenue NE.
Directory item lists Nagle-Eaton Lumber Novak Heating Wisconsin Lumber Limback Lumber Hawkeye Lumber and Coal C. & Fuel Cedar Rapids Gas Williams Hunting Kings Crown Plaster Economy Sears Reebuck as suppliers and building material firms serving homes and projects in the era.
Work has begun on a new building at E avenue and Eighteenth street to house the Searles Daily after November 1. The project costs about 15000 dollars and measures 40 by 77 feet. Morehead Frederikson Construction Co. leads the project and also handles an 18000 dollar building at 714 Second Avenue SE for A C Stewart, leased to the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. Grading for the latter began Friday morning.
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