Children Helped Enlarge Cottage Into All Family Project
The white home at 1032 Twenty sixth Street SE grew with family needs as Harold and siblings joined in remodeling. Neighbors helped shore up the project, adding a basement recreation room, a new dinette and extended living space, with a rounded brick fireplace and colorfully lit ceilings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlton Smith
Twenty Sixth Street
Smiths
Thompson
Twenty-sixth Street
Mr. Smith
A. J. Smith
Better Homes DIRECTORY And Interior Recreation Room Features
A Cedar Rapids home shows built in shelves painted Dutch blue around a recreation room with murals. Toy trains carts and fishing gear fill the area while a reading corner lies near the tool room. The laundry sits at the far end, composition board ceiling the recreation space.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Smith
Modernistic murals decorate basement by Harold and Dorothy Smith
Harold and Dorothy Smith are credited with modernistic murals in the basement where a large combination ping pong and pool table sits beneath massive center supports shaped as lions heads. The passage notes blue and blue-green decor, a bath room with a clothes chute, and a built-in low shelf cabinet at the tub end. The telephone niche is in the hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold
Dorothy Smith
Birds With Long Legs and Necks A Quick Fact
Birds with long legs often have long necks, yet some long neck birds do not share long legs. This natural pattern shows varied body designs among avian species.
Garden Flowers And Fruits Decorations On Novelty Dishes
Fall and winter home decor will feature fruit and flower motif dinnerware from 785 manufacturers at the Merchandise Mart show. Porcelain dishes become integrated centerpieces with realis tic fruit and bloom designs including leaf-laden apple and orange pieces, flowered candle sticks, and novelty jugs. Glassware and brass accents align with a revival of apothecary scales and sparking lamps, while glass pieces trend toward simple crystal centerpieces and plain etched motifs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merchandise Mart
New England
Starts Building Two Homes On West Side
Bruce A. West begins construction of two English type five room homes on the west side. One at 1021 C avenue NW for Mr. and Mrs. Otto Mathias, who live at 810 Ninth street NW. The second at 1011 C avenue NW for Mr. and Mrs ay E Toomer, 407 avenue W. Pearl A. Thomas sells 1601 Fifth street NW to Mr. and Mrs W A Clymer at 309 Fourth avenue SW.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruce A. West
C Avenue NW
Otto Mathias
Ninth Street NW
Ay E. Toomer
Pearl A. Thomas
Fifth Street NW
W. A. Clymer
Fourth Avenue
Wm. E. Peterson Buys Cape Cod Bungalow
The Cape Cod bungalow at 403 Thirty-second street NE sold by J. P. Conway Co. to Mr. and Mrs. William E. Peterson who take possession Aug. 1. The firm also sold 1548 Sixth avenue SE to Ernest A. Edaburn and 2010 Second street SW to Hartley M. Holte, with other transfers including D. M. Puth and A. E. Kelly listings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Cod
Thirty-second Street
Elting Ottley
J. P. Conway Company
William E. Peterson
Fourth Avenue
Sixth Avenue
D. M. Puth
Ernest A. Edaburn
Eleventh Street
Second Street
Bohemian Savings and Loan Association
Hartley M. Holte
Avenue
A. E. Kelly
Enzler Buys McGinn Home on Fifth Avenue SE
Mr and Mrs J W Enzler of 1534 Bever avenue SE purchase the house at 2300 Fifth avenue SE from David McGinn a retired railroad man who plans to move to California The sale was conducted by Mrs Elizabeth Giblin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Enzler
Bever Avenue
Fifth Avenue
David McGinn
California
Elizabeth Giblin
Oswald Pedersen Purchases NW Home at 1319 B Ave
Oswald H. Pedersen buys the house at 1319 B Avenue NW from Edward Leigh of 401 First Avenue W. The sale was made by the C. M. Hatfield Company in cooperation with O. P. Myers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oswald H. Pedersen
B Avenue NW
Edward Leigh
First Avenue
C. M. Hatfield
O. P. Myers
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Naomi Doebel
Coe College
Sanford
Fay
Wisconsin Lumber Co
FHA
Third Ave
Ist St. NE
Century
Ed Soboda
Cedar Rapids Fuel CO
Perpetual Savings and Loan Association Home Loans
Third Street
Cedar Rapids
Fairbanks-Morse
Sold BY Home Coal CO
State Theater
Ryuoy * A
Maresh
Broulie
DIAL
Better Homes Directory
Nagle-Eaton
Cedar Rapids Block Co
Suburban Gas Co
Wisconsin Lumber
Maresh Sheet Metal
King’s Crown Plaster Co
Kriz Tent and Awning Co
Klinger Wall Paper & Paint Co
Broulik Bros. Limback Lumber Co
National Life of Vermont
Cedar Rapids Gas Co
Economy Lumber Co
Home Lumber Co., Inc
Sanford’s
Pella
Heymer
Awning CO
First Street
Waylite
Tenth Street
China
Pio
6Th St. SW
Wm. E. Peterson
B Ave
Third Avenue
King's Crown Plaster Co
First Ave. W
National Life Insura
Montpelier
Vermont
Harvey C. McClary
Dows
Tion
Marion
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