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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1939
Page
26
The Vermeersch family at 2538 Country Club Parkway SE added a 24 inch overhang to their colonial style house to gain two extra feet of second floor space for five school age children. Their layout includes a knotty pine recreation room, basement playroom, and a kitchen designed for children to help with meals.
The Cedar Rapids residence by McKay Construction Co. presents a large living room with built in book shelves, ivory woodwork, briar carpet, and a front facing fireplace. Upstairs holds four bedrooms, two baths, ample storage, and themed decor for each child reflecting personal tastes.
The week lists multiple permit requests including new dwellings at 327 Thirty seventh Street NE and 1818 Ridgewood Terrace SE, commercial remodels for firms like Phillips Petroleum and Link Belt Speeder Corp, plus repairs and reroofs across addresses in SE NW NE SW and beyond with prices ranging from 15 to 25000 dollars.
Stark Construction of Cedar Rapids will begin Monday on a standard reinforced concrete water column pit for the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad in Marion. The project is estimated to cost about $1,000.
J E Frazier of 128 Fourth Street NW buys the Van Fleet house at 1117 Eleventh Street NW from Vera Van Fleet. Possession expected mid October. Sale arranged through A A Doolittle and Company, local realtors.
Elkader The Witherell Produce Co adopts the Prairie Produce name under Wisconsin law with Art Witherell and son Kenneth as managers. $2,000 in new equipment will expand Elkader plant and add staff. The Checkerboard cafe will transfer Oct 1 to John and Mrs. Wistrick of Prairie du Chien. Washington Risk Construction began a $40,000 armory pour for Smith Construction of Cedar Rapids. Jesup J L Rumph of Waterloo plans a short order lunch room in a new building north of the printing office. Anamosa foundation for Clyde Chipman store building completed using Way-site block and enameled brick. Postville Groth Produce finishes a one-story frame building east of Turner hall for modern produce handling.
Sales of two homes closed last week through C. M. Hatfield and company. The 823 Twelfth street NE house owned by Bohemian Savings and Loan association sold to Norman C. Grimm of 1410 Hamilton street SE. The 1800 Seventh avenue SE house owned by Cedar Rapids Building and Loan association sold to William T. McAllen of 410 Eleventh street NW.
Mrs. Lulu Harrington purchased houses at 822 and 824 A avenue NE from the Magdalena Eastern estate last week. She will occupy one property, with the deal arranged through local realtor O. P. Myers.
Starting Monday the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation will sell houses under contract at 4 percent interest instead of 5 percent. John J. Wagner of Tait and Wagner, contract brokers for HOLC in Cedar Rapids, Marion and Mount Vernon, announced the change.
The text notes homes sold only at fair market prices under HO L Corporation regulations. In thirty four months about 85 Home Owners' Loan Corporation residences have been sold in Cedar Rapids.
L J Pochobradsky of 97 Sixteenth Avenue SW sold his property at 1337 Fifth Street NW to Raymond F. Le Clerc of 1315 Maplewood Drive NE. Possession is to occur by October 1. Sale facilitated by John A. Wooden, local real estate dealer.
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