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 in Near Future
Farm Homes Have Been Built, En-.
larged And Remodeled on Many
Neighboring Farms
More New Buildings Erected Than
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 it's
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
jority 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, T. VOL
verton, M. Lauterbach, C. Rice, c..
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 c. H. By
ingtch.. Extensive improvements will
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 Cold
A. J. White, John Drury, John Kuck
Henry Kuck and Ward Pease.,
| While the most of the building has
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
will make his studio one of the fines
in the state, outside the large cities
The new office building, built by E
Kuenzh, and occupied by DR.. y. J
Henze, is also big addition to th'
business buildings. VIM. Rosendah
has enlarged and improved his garag'
and warehouse. The new Church o.
st. Catherine is the largest and cost
Hest of any single new building ant
is a very handsome addition to thu
city Extensive improvements hav.
also been made at the County Fail
grounds where a large cattle barr
has been built, a new judges stant
erected, and the grandstand completed
Dy d ldESe duulIlOIl.
Many Country improvements
Farm homes in the vicinity of Red
wood Falls have also been great.
improved. Robt. Stewart has bull
a handsome brick home and an i'm
mense silo so #. high and Is feet IL
diameter Mrs. Emma Green is build
ing large duplex house on the farm
formerly owned by c. D. Burris, VIM
| Smith near Delhi has built a new
home, Theo. Biggers is building ;
home, and t. Biggers is building
of the city. Improvements have beel
made on the r. A. Cooper farm, o.
the Finn farm, known as the oil
Turrell place, c. C. King has entire
: " remodeled and enlarged his HON
. west of town, ]. Alfred johnson ha
built an addition to. his home an
, extensive improvements have Dee
made on the A. D. Smith farm. Fri
+. Peabody has also extensively i'm
proved his farm buildings on his prop
erty north of town.
The Gazette has endeavored t
:. make the lists Of new buildings an
improvements as complete as possible
and viii be glad to have any omis
sions brought to its attention. Tn
building boom is one Of the best il
: dications of the financial state an
prosperity OF the County as well q
II the enterprise Of its residents. r.
g garded as such an indicator the pa
o season has been most pleasing to q
: interested in the County's progre:
and wealth.