Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-11
NELSON LACKEY BEGINS DE.
VELoPING TRACT At SEVENTH
AND BOONE STREETS.
WILL ERECT NINE
HOUSES ON PROPERTY
Tract to Be Called Laekey Terrace and
Plan Of Subdivision Is New For This
City-James Andrews Starts Build
ina First Of Group Of Houses in
South Ninth Street.

Two home building projects just
| include the erection of tourteen new
houses in the Third ward, are the
most important building plans that
have been launched in that rapidly
reveloping section. One project in
cludes the opening and plating of a
tract for an addition.
The builders are Nelson Lackey.
| who is improving property at B'cne
and Seventh streets. The other is
James Andrews, who is building at I
and 8 South Ninth street, and who
plans to build IN the lot ADJ, ;nins a.
907 West Church st:4.;.
Improving Painter Tract.
| Lackey. who bought the Isaac
| Painter property al Boone and Sew
enth street, is subdividing and i'm
proving it. This tract las a Boone
street frontage of 1872 feet and a
depth Of 300 feet.
The plan for subdividing and devel-
oping it : entirely re" i'll this city.
Thru the center Of the land from
north to sou r will be lad cut SIX
foot parking On each side of il Will
be a four foot sidewalk. Fronting
these sid walks a.d parking. ten iols
have been nlatteS Tley front east
ard west md viii be IL fecr deep
from east to west and eight of them
will have north and south dimension
of 60 feet The two others Will be
slightly smaller.
Starts Building Houses.
All around the tract. opening at
the northeast and northwest corners
of it into Boone street, an eight foot
drive is provided for delivery pur-
noses of all kinds and for occupants
If the houses to get in and out in
vehicles.
The building line has been estah-
Iished twelve feet east and west of
the sidewalk lines along the central
parking This spaces the fronts OF
the houses thirty eight feet apart.
east and west.
Lackey has started building the hrst
of four or more Of the houses on the
northernmost lots of the tract that
will be probably all that will be built
this year. The type OF Improvement
is story and one-half frame dwell
ing of five rooms and bath, that Will
cost $500 to $4,000.
distinctive feature of the tract IS
to ne ornament pillars a the sidewalk
entrances into the tract which has
been named Leckey Terrace.
Andrews Building Houses.
In the rear Nos and 9 South Ninth
street and on the lot adjoining but
fronting at 9O7 West Church street
James Andrews. owner of the prop
ortv, has begun building the first OF
five houses. at least two o; which Will
he put up this fall.
BARNS in the rear Of Nos. and 3
are being remodeled into six room
dwellings two stories high ana 1N'lF
modern. One will face south. the other
north. in the rear of the Andrews fiat
at No. and the Andrews residence
at No. upon private drive. that now
masses between the fiat and the And
reys home to the rear OF the lot.
These dwellings will cost about
80 200 each. the builder estimates.
Unless other disposition is maze Oh
the property, Andrews plans to build
three houses on the lot at 9ol west
Church, which he purchased recently
of Melville Smith for $500. One Will
be faced on Church street and Two
others will face east. They Will have
frontage along the private drive that
leads to the two houses now being
huilt. This drive will be curved along
the east line Of the Church street
Iot into which it will open. The
later houses may not be built until
next year.