Edifice of First Presbyterian to be a real home
A new First Presbyterian church edifice is planned on Franklin Street and Park Avenue, expected to cost about 150900, with a 150 by 145 foot footprint. Clinton P Shockley is the architect. The plan includes a rectangular court, a court-side patio, a two-story chapel, multiple classrooms, and extensive basement social and dining facilities. Construction follows wartime delays with funding raised over years.
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First Presbyterian Church
Clinton P. ‘Shockley
C. C. Ballistt
Franklin Street
Park Avenue
Frankin_ street
Het
First Baptist Church to Build New Home
Building committee hopes to start work on a new First Baptist Church at Fourth and Baltimore. Architect CG P Shockley drafts plans for an $80,000 structure with tentative wings. Ground purchased earlier, two houses to be moved, pledges for funds payable this spring.
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First Baptist Church
CG. P. Shockley
Fourth
Baltimore
Mary Riley
Paving Contract Let for Four Blocks in Waterloo
The city awarded a contract for four blocks of tick pavement to Dearborn Construction of Waterloo on Miles and McKinley streets near the Waterloo Engine Company plant. The project, costing about $30,000, will employ 25 to 30 men and start once streets are graded and essential sewer and water connections completed.
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Dearborn Construction Company of
Waterloo
Miles
Mc.Kinley
Asoling Engine Company
Nlant
Ornate riverfront seawall project planned from Fourth to Fifth
A Cedar Rapids riverfront commission moves to replace unsightly banks with a decorative seawall and elevated cement walkway from Fourth to Fifth Street. Plans include a stairway to the water, a merged wall with the Town Telephone building, and a parkable strip behind the wall. Construction hinges on blueprints by civil engineer Nathan Barber and funding for the first section.
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Crete
Fifth ‘Street
River Front
Ion
Nathan Barber
Town TelePhone | Company
Fifth Street Bridge
Pby
Lue Tiver
Sixth Street
Mullan Avenue
New Bridge Site Scene of Activity
A toolhouse, office and cement sheds were erected at the Sans Sorci bridge site as work becomes active. Construction will start Monday. The old bridge is closed and partly dismantled but not removed until new piers are in. The DWC&N railway lays a spur track for material handling. H E B Fifield of Fifield Construction Co. holds the bridge contract.
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Sans Sorci
H. EB. Fifield
The
Fifield Congstruction Company
Building Permits and Address List From Local Notices
List of permit items including Mirs G W Harker 43 Independence Avenue Fempdery IME vee Hawve Fourth East bar iW Hawver 126 Gable punding Barn Mary Ey Warner 314 Randolph furnace installation perpetual B L association 525 Lafayette awnings 7 We Gallup Fifth and Wa
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G.W. Harker
Independence Avenue
Fempdery
Remodeling project hires workers for bridge site
A remodeling plan states that the work will require about 35 men this summer. Taylor, superintendent, will hire the labor at the bridge site for a total charge of 1200.00. The notice appears amid ads and mentions the “For Sale Act” in the Courier.
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Stan- TE
Rafeorashts
Taylor
Contractors file bonds under Waterloo building code
Seventeen general and eleven heating contractors have filed bonds of 3000 dollars each with Edward Mabuke, Waterloo building commissioner, to guarantee faithful performance under the Waterloo building code. Forty-six permits for various building activities have been issued since April 1. Plans include new dwellings, remodeling Brevort hotel, and a new heating plant at the state hospital in Independence.
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Edward Mabuke
BLY, Lichty & Bon
Hulse & Foster
la. . Roberts
C. M. Berkley
Zook & Bentz
L.B. Glaza
Mahnuke
Office of Building Comulsioner
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First Presbyterian
Baltimore Streets
Fifth Sts
Riverfront
A. B. Glenny
Warren Hellen
W.P. Jensen
A. Jease
Iowa Telephone Company
W. ‘& C.F. Union Mill Company
Cedar. Rapids
Memorial Hall
Cedar
New Bridge
the Courier
A. G. Picken
Brunswick
Brunswick Phonograph Shop
Commercial ‘Street
Tors
A. Maine & Co
G. Alles
Lain & Masbrook
Cukrie-Simpoon Co
Waterloo Rooling
M. Bien
Black Hawk Construction Co
J. L. Johnson & Wim
E. E. Peek
Nowell
Peek Streets
Fourth Lstreet
Q. C. McClinton
Cutler Street
Brevort Hotel
Fifth and
Water Streets
Fifth Street
Water
J. W. Rath
Prospect. Avenue
Highland
Boulevara
M. B. Cleve
M.B
Cleveland
Fourth and
Jefferson Streets
Curries: Simpson Company
Independence
State Hospital
Black Hawk County
Black Hawk County Abstract, Co
Sycamore Street
Campbell Sporting Goods Co
Bridge Street
Electric Cleaners
Apex
Carpet Dept
Park Ave
Klean-Kwick
Madras
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