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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1940
Page
12
A Chicago couple, Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Wiedersberg, built a home after years of moving due to rental houses being sold. Their three children and a dog faced chilly receptions from prospective landlords, turning housing into a persistent burden before securing property rights and stability.
Mr. and Mrs. Wiedersberg bought two lots at 126 Thirty-seventh street NE and completed a six room Cape Cod bungalow designed for family privacy and year round gardening. The home features a west facing living room with full height windows, a dining area, a vaulted hallway, a master bedroom, two back bedrooms, and a basement recreation room that hosted up to 68 guests. The kitchen serves as the heart of the home with maple cabinets, a bay window with built in seat, and an L shaped breakfast area suited for crafts and gatherings.
Mrs Wiedersberg replaces usual storage with two galvanized iron chutes under the sink to dump waste paper and laundry, plus tin drawers for bread and supplies. A sliding hall door saves space, a cedar closet, double bedroom closets, and planned attic stairs extend storage in the peach and white finished home.
Local blog reports weekly building permits listing numerous addresses with new dwellings, garages, and remodels. Totals include Frank J. Vrba, Harold Pickerill, Lenore Veneman, and others, with values ranging from dozens to thousands of dollars for residential and commercial projects.
Charles W. Karban buys a lot on Thirteenth Street NW between F and H avenues and will start a dwelling in Belmont Park additions accepted for FHA insured loans. Three more residences are planned within sixty days, per Hedges company. Luetjens buys improved acreage on Twenty fourth Avenue SE Rompot addition and will move there. Also sold: bungalow at 1040 H Avenue NW to Robert C. Long and bungalow at 854 Center Point Road NE to W F Newton. Leon F. Hines buys 889 Twelfth Street NE from Cold Stream Farms Inc.
Mr and Mrs Joseph Barta sold their home at 3311 Carlisle street NE to Mr and Mrs Harrison E Bailey of 1402 Thirty second street NE with possession set for April 1 The exchange involved J G Munsons 2204 Johnson avenue NW and O W Compton’s 611 Nineteenth street SW property The Comptons will move to the Johnson avenue home with Munsons to take possession April 1
Newcomer Edithe Nelson rents a bungalow at 251 Thirty-fourth Street Drive NE Ottumwa from C. C. Burr of La Porte City through The Hedges company. Robert P. Bell relocates from Omaha to a bungalow at 1043 Seventeenth Street NE, renting from Mrs. Walter Markle via Fred E. Collard and company. Bell becomes garage foreman for Peterson Baking. Mrs. William R. Hoese, arriving from Aberdeen South Carolina, moves into 370 Twentieth Street SE, renting from Mr. and Mrs. Ben R. Groff through Fred E. Collard and company.
G W Gilson of Waterloo has leased for five years the southeast corner of First avenue and Seventh street, owned by Mrs William G Dows and Sutherland Dows. The tract fronts 120 feet on First avenue and 140 feet on Seventh street. He will move his Eleventh street drive in and sublease space for an open air fruit and vegetable market. Preparations include resurfacing and driveways. lease via The Hedges company.
The Egyptians developed surveying from practical geometry to recover estate boundaries erased by the annual Nile floods, applying measurement to restore land limits after inundation.
Karl Rosenberger of Taos New Mexico has sold the Cedar Rapids family home at 1720 First Avenue E built by his father Charles E. Rosenberger. Anthony Gergela of 729 F Avenue NW is the purchaser and will take possession April 1 through George P. Witwer.
Earle G Nichols division manager for the Iowa Electric Light and Power company will discuss The Progress of Electricity at the Cedar Rapids Real Estate Board luncheon Monday at noon at the YMCA.
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