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Great Furniture Mart site traces to Cedar Rapids warehouse origin
The Cedar Rapids warehouse for John Blaul and Sons Co. began as a Burlington grocer and grew into a four story brick facility at First Street and Sixth Avenue. The 1914 contract valued at 55000 funded completion by 1915 with later sales, leases, and name changes shaping the site through 1993 when John Khairallah purchased 600 First St SE.
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John Blaul's Sons Co
First St. SE
Cedar Rapids
Edar Rapids
John Blaul
Loomis
Charles
Theodore
Louise Denecke
Denecke
Theo
Dore
John Blaul Sons Co
Nash Finch Co
Minneapolis
Blaul
Salt Lake City
Riviera Inc
Collins Surplus Store
Midwest Food Distributors Inc
Henry Hamilton
L. Fellman
Midwest Foods
Killian Co
Midwest Foodservice Corp
John Khairallah
Great Furniture Mart