The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-03-31
BALDAUF CORNER
TO Be REBUILT
New Structure win Be SO x 1870
Feet, Three Stories High
GLASS FRONT ALONG HIGH AVE
Big Boost For Greater oskaIoosa---
Six Thousand Feet Of Floor
Space Gained = Fitting
10th Anniversary.

Announcement is made todya of one
of the biggest building improvements
to be made that Oskaloosa has known
in years, one that will make a change
in the cfty's sky line, and one that
will make a complete change in APP
pearance of prominent business
street and a busy corner. A COM
plete transformation of the Baldauf
corner, the home of the Baldanf-
Rosenblatt Dry Goods company, is
to take place and changes will be
made that will leave little of the APP
pearance of the plan as 1t now stands.
A practically new building is to
stand at the intersection of High Ave.
and Market street.
The building is to be made fully
three stories in height, fifty feet on
Market street and 100 feet on the
High Ave. side. An entire new front
will be installed on Market street,
one of the neatest and best pieces of
work of strictly modern type and ar
chitecture that can be found, that
will do away with the entrance ele-
walton that is seen in the entrance
today The floor of the new entrance
will be Flush" with the sidewalk.
But this is not all. The change that
will effect the appearance of the en-
tire block of High avenue west from
Market street, will be the installation
OF what will amount to a new front
along the 100 feet of the north or
High avenue side of the building
Handsome show windows and an en-.
trance on the High avenue side will
give the block an appearance that it
has never had before, and the ap-
pearance of the entire street will be
correspondingly improved.
The changes will make an appro-
pirate feature of the "fortieth ami
versary" df the foundation of the
Baldauf House, which was announc-
ed with the spring opening. The big
changes to be made In the house we're
limited at In the account of the Bal
dauf Anniversary celebration, but the
story was not ready for publication.
at that time. Architects, the repre-
sentatiyes of Proudfit and Bird, of
Des Moines, have been in Oslxaloosa
this week, making detailed examina-
ton of the building and to gather the
information necessary to the compile
ton of the plans now being drawn.
The papers for the Improvement were
drawn up and completed yesterday
and were signed by Williams Bros,
owners of the building, and by the
Baldauf-Rosenblatt company and the
great Improvement is now assured.
Greater Oskaloosa has no bigger
boost than this improvement in years.
The building of another story was
necessity to give the Baldauf-Ros-
enblatt company room to properly
care for the great increase in bust
ness. They gain 5000 feet of floor
space by the Improvement. The first
floor will lose certain amount of
floor space in the changes to the
north side, but the addition to the
display space compensates the loss.
The entire store will be re-arranged
and made over and the interior
tiaholuiudtiUH VIII U6 IulIy dS great
as the changes In the exterior ap-
pearances. Just what these details
and changes will be cannot at this
time be stated, as the plans are not
yet completed. The Herald will have
more to say of the special features
Of the big Improvement from time to
time, as they are developed. The
work of alteration will be commenced
as soon as arrangements can be made
and the plans completed by the ar
chitects. No contracts have yet
been let, but as little time as posi-
BILE will be taken before the starting
of the building operations. The ex-
tensive nature of the improvements
for both interior and exterior will re-
quire considerable time In compile
ton, but when all is ready there will
be an opening of the largest and most !
handsome retail store in the city has
ever known. The place is to be made
a credit to the state as we'll as to
city and county.