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New Apartment Brings Modern Features on South Grand Street
The McGuire Apartment Building owned by Mrs. Manning McGuire rises on South Grand Street opposite the Monroe Hotel. It spans eighty by sixty one feet, three stories with two more possible, and uses reinforced concrete. The first floor houses entrance, elevator, stairs, hot water heating and commercial shops, while the second and third floors hold seventeen efficiency apartments with In-A-Door beds, steel kitchens, modern plumbing, private mail boxes and telephone connections. Exterior cream stucco with tile copings and Italianate details overlook a river view. Ready for occupancy in about thirty days, Underwood Contracting Corp. builds it under William Drago and L Milton Kinz local architects.
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