Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-05-13
PLUMB BROS. FINISHING TWO
AND PREPARING TO BUILD
FOUR OTHERS.
THREE MORE BEING BUILT
ON SOUTH TWELFTH STREET
Or. Dilier, the Misses Ford, and Mrs.
Brock Al Building New Dwellings,
Substantial improvements and Re.
pairs Being Made to other Resi-.
deness in Town.

Six new five-room cottages will be
added to Melrose park near the fair
grounds entrance. during the summer
months. j. D. and C.. A Plumb are
doing the building. and two OF the
dwellings are practically finished.
They face Eleventh avenue, and are
between Main and State. One will cost
completed $1,000 and the other $1,000.
On Main street, between, Eleventh
and Twelfth avenues. Plumb Bros.
build the other four, each OF which will
cost about $1,000 They Will be COM
pleted by Aug. I, and excavating is
to be begun at once.
Plumb Bros. are also to do other i'm
provement work on their Jerome street
property between Sixth and Seventh,
this season. Fifteen hundred loads Of
earth have already been hauled on
the lots, and two old houses on the
property are to be raised three feet
and remodeled, made into modern
dwellings. Another house IS TO be
moved from the site. The Jerome
street Improvement will cost the
Plumbs about $4,000.
Three For South Twelfth.
G. S. Nugent and NJ. W. Erwin are
building on South Twelfth street, be-
tween Linn and Boone on the lots
numbered 2O7-11, three six-room cot
tages that will cost $4,000 each. The
one at Eli South Twelfth is the first
to be completed.
other New Houses.
DR.. Claude r. Diller Is building a
new home at S07 West Boone street
that will be ready for occupancy about
the first part Of June. The dwelling is
a two-story bungalow, of frame and
cement plaster construction, and cost
ing $4,000. A new garage on the
property will add $3.50 TO the invest
ment.
Misses Julia and Bessie Ford are
building a bungalow on the rear OF
their lot at H. South Second street
that they expect to have ready for
occupancy about July /. The dwelling
will cost $4,000.
Mrs., Helen X. Brock - building at
the southeast corner Of Thirteenth and
state streets a dwelling that will cost
$4,000.
improvements 10 Homes.
Substantial improvements are being
made in different parts of town. A. r.
Balch has nearing completion extensive
improvements to his home at 106 North
Second street. On the ground floor the
dining room has been widened four or
five feet. and a new back porch mas
been built Up stairs have been ADDED
a new bath room. another bedroom ana
a fine sleeping porch. A new heating
plant has also been installed. The I'M
movement will amount to between
$500 and $4,000.
ou,te extensive interior and exterior
i'm provements have Just been COM
pleted at the home Of j. NJ. FRIEDMAN
5o2 North Third street. A new porch
has been added. the interior OF the
dwelling remodeled. and hard WOOD
floors laid, all at cost Of about $l'-
600.
Or. Nelson Merrill is adding new
toilet room down stairs at his nome az
3o5 West Main street and laying hard
wood floor in one bedroom. Inc I'M
movement here will cost about 5000.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. c. Taylor, who pur-
chased OF Edgar Buckholder the prop
erty at 1O2 North Sixth street. are
greatly improving the house by the
addition of q large porch on the east
md addition Of four rooms to the west
and by entirely rearranging and re-
modelling the interior to make IT en-
tirely modern and convenient. The
dwelling is being remodeled into a
colonial house house, the feature OF
which is to be very large living
room. The rebuilding will cost about
$4,000. Mr.. and Mrs Taylor paid 3d.
300 for the property which was the old
A. F. Haradon home.