The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1914-09-01
Redwood Falls
And Vicinity Has
Building Boom
Twenty New Houses Built in City
This Summer; Seven More To Be
Built i'm Near Future
Farm Homes Have Been Built, En-.
larged And Remodeled on Many
Neighboring Farms
More New Buildings Erected Thar
in Any Other One Season For
Many Years


orable one in the history of the city's
growth. Probably in no other one
year since the first few years of its
| existence, has Redwood Falls seen as
much building of all kinds, and OF
homes particularly, as has gone on
since the opening of the season sew
eral months ago. At present there are
twenty new homes either completed or
under construction, and seven more
! that will be started this autumn and
completed early in the spring of 1915.
| A drive or walk through the streets
/ shows a number of splendid new resi-
| dences under construction, the ma
! iority of them being built by the own
ers, who will occupy them as homes.
A few are being built for rental or
sale and will help to lessen the ten
sion caused by the lack of rentable
houses during the past few months.
The builders of these new homes are
which add so materially to the city
are: N. F. Dripps, O. W. Grapp, Dr..
J. W. Inglis, o. Wolverton, 7. VOL
verton, M. Lauterbach, c. Rice, G.
/ o. Borg. NJ. A. Ebright, Mrs. Pea
body Sr, Jas. Stevenson, Robt. Pryor,
Chas Peck, Miss Mildred Barnes, Mar
tin Freise, and the Gold-Cooper Sc
curity Co., which has five new houses
under way.
Beside the new homes, many 9th
ers have been remodeled and mod
ernized and enlarged. Among these
are the homes of Mrs. Mary Finn
A. J White, Herman Werder, A. l
! Sarchet. H. Theiring and G. H. By
ingten. Extensive Improvements viii
be made soon upon the c. A. Luschel
home.
Several new homes will be started
this fall and finished either during
the winter or the early spring. Notable
among these are the new homes of A
D. McRae, A. Drogasch, Glenn Goid
: A. J. White, John Drury, John Kuck
Henry Kuck and Ward Pease..
While the most of the building ha!
been done in the residence sections
the business section has not been en-
tirely neglected H. D. Thorp is build
ing a two-story addition to his photo
graph gallery, which, when complete
4 will make his studio one of the fines
5 in the state, outside the large cities
I The new office building, built by L
. KuenzE, and occupied by DR.. 4. }
r Hence, is also a big addition to tn
J. business buildings. VIM. Rosendah
D has enlarged and improved his garag
:. and warehouse. The new Church 0
st. Catherine is the largest and cost
+ iest of any single new building an
2 is a very handsome addition to tn
city. Extensive improvements hav
: also been made at the County Fal
: grounds where a large cattle bar
i has been built, a new judges stan
erected. and the grandstand complete
: Oy large adQlIlOn.
: Many Country improvements
5 Farm homes in the vicinity Of Red
: wood Falls have also been great
improved. Robt. Stewart has bull
: a handsome brick home and an In
: mense silo 80 # high and Is feet /
0 diameter Mrs Emma Green Is bullc
t ing a large duplex house on the far
formerly owned by c. D. Burris, Wn
d Smith near Delhi has built a me-
/ home, Theo. Biggers is building
e home. and T. Biggers is building
D. Of the city improvements have bee
% made on the r. A. Cooper farm, .
the Finn farm, known as the Of
d Turrell place, C. c. King has entire
D. IL remodeled and enlarged his hon
T. west of town, J. Alfred Johnson ha
s built an addition to his home an
I, extensive improvements have Dee
+ made on the A. D. Smith farm. Err
o. Peabody has also extensively IN
1t proved his farm buildings on his pro-
erty north of town.
The Gazette has endeavored
r. make the lists Of new buildings AZ
Improvements as complete as possibl
and viii be glad to have any omi
sions brought to its attention. Il
building boom is one of the best /
n dications Of the financial state a
prosperity Of the County as well
an the enterprise OF its residents. R
he garded as such an indicator the pa
70 season has been most pleasing to
q interested in the County's progre
and wealth.