Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-04-03
OF CITY TO BE
TRANSFORMED INTO MOD.
ERN DEPARTMENT STORE.
sum OF $4,000 WILL
BE SPENT ON BUILDING
Main Street Merchant to Have Base
ment and Three Floors, With Over
$4,000 Square Feet Of Floor Space
Possession to Be Given Next Spring
Levin to Add Departments. s,~

Another most substantial improve
ment of the Main street business dis
trct was made public TO-DAY, in which
j. Levin, dry goods merchant at 1866
los East Main street. acquires d long
time lease of the c. NJ. Forney proper
" at 1915 East Main in which Mr..
Levin viii open a modern department
store. Possession is Il be given next
spring. at the expiration OF present
leases.
Mr.. Levin has rented the entire For
ney building, including the second
story. known as F'orneys han. I'M
provenents in the sum OF $4,000 will
be made on the building, according to
Mr.. Forney. Il have had in mind for
FIVE years remodeling the building for
department store purposes said Mr.
Forney today, and the building will he
put into first class shape. TO suit the
new tenant
Three Floors and Basement.
The Forney building. remodeled. will
provide the Levin store with three
floors and basement. The first Efoor
and basement. now occupied by Nettie
Ingledue & Co. dry goods and Ingle-
due & Young. shoes. have a frontage Of
| forty feet, and depth of $50. The For
nev hall, comprising the second floor.
extends across three Main street store
rooms. a frontage OF ffty-siX feet. and
a depth of ninety feet. The hall has
twenty FIVE foot ceiling, and this large
room will be made into two floors,
with a balcony effect leading from the
basement TO the ceiling.
To Provide Modern Front.
4 modern front. modelled after
large ST. Paul store, will be put in, at
a cost Of $4,000. The dividing wall be-
! tween the two present store rooms will
! ne removed. and the basement vii! be
F.! improved materially. making OF it
modern salesroom.
| Mr.. Levin has rented the larger
quarters in order to provide increas ed
! floor space necessary TO his business.
, Levin Among Newer Merchants.
Altho Mr. Levin is among the newer
merchants OF the city. he has built up
a magnificent business within a very
short time He came here three and
/ ore-half years ago, buying the A. N.
Parker store. One room. 2oxll0. was
then occupied, and five salespeople
We're employed. Today the floor space
occupied in the double store room has
been tripled and fortyfve people
are employed.
In his new store Mr.. Levin Will
again more than triple MS present
floor space. and expects TO more than
double mis- sales force. New depart
ments will be added TO the stock in the
new location.
Building Amusement Landmark.
The building that will now be utli-
lied for modern commercial purposes
is an amusement landmark of the city.
The late Henry Forney father Of the
present owner Of the property, built the
building IN 1879 and for years the nal!
was known as Ftorney's Music Hall. In
il all OF the old club dancing parties
iof wears ago were held. In later years
too. dances have been almost nightly
occurrences on the second floor of the
building. During the past winter the
hall has been used for skating rink
purposes.