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The exclusiveness of milllionaires' s row in Des Moines has been broken by apartment houses. One of the best residental sections of Des Moines is Grand Avenue, the show place of the city, between Nineteenth and Green wood park. The avenue is commonly shorten of ag ‘miletaires’ row, and its location is unexcelled in the city. After a struggle lasting for more than twenty years real estate speculators have at last succeeded in ‘purchasing [unrestricted land on Grand avenue. And in the last two months savera. apartment houses are being built be tween thirty-sixth and Fortiebh sts. These apartment houses, put up by J.B. Kidd, will cost nnne neigh borhood of $60,000, and will con form in a great measure to the general style of the representative best houses on that avenue. But nevertheless they are undeniably and distinctively facts, with their sectionaries. One of the chief attractions of Grand Avenue is its proximity to Greenwood park. Within five minutes wall of every dwelling and apartment house in the avenue are fine drives and broad fiehds for children to play, ‘These ‘flats are the first wedge into the Grand Avenue building. Real es tate men say that the millionaires in the city are too few to have exchrsive rights on so fashionable a street. ‘Fashionable ‘apartment housew are in demand by people who would not or could not afford to build and maintain so fine a residences es the ageing property helders demand to hesp up the exclusive appearance of the thoroughfares. Whe Grand Avenue was laid out the promoters did not permit of homes below a certain minimum of price. A streat railway through its street was atrietry taboned. One of the first sec ond setbacks to the’ growth of the street was i ts poor transfit service. “Tha [out facilities for Such had to be made on Ingérsol] Avenue, which gave ac cess within one block. Facillties have soonv improved that. Rve-minute service is maintained, ‘This has added yet another adrersion for the would be fashionable , fat dweller. At the very entrance of the street is the Chamberlain row of apartment houses each with a tenant. ‘There can be an active and speculative movement in this section of the avenue in the last few years. When the restrictions were reminved an attempt was made by residents who have Invested money in their awaitings to prevent the erec ion of medicim priced fiats, but the opposition was not strong, enough to prevent the bullders from obtaining the land they needed. It was feared that if the flats were sill private, dwelling would depreciate, in, value in fections where they were surrounded by fata.
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Des Moines Daily News
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Mon, Jun 11, 1906
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