The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-10-02
TO BUILD 3O-APT.
BUILDING HERE
Larson Brothers to Begin
Work at Once on Park
Avenue Building.
MANY INNOVATIONS
Contractors 10 BE Owners; to
Equip Apartments with Last
Word in improvements.

A dream of fourteen years standing
is coming to realization in Kenosha!
AL Larson and Louis Larson, brothers,
who have been in the contracting
business in Kenosha for that long, are
taking advantage Of an opportunity to
fulfill their dreams of over decade,
and Kenosha is about to have thirty
apartment building, the like of which
it has never had.
Larson Bros, contractors, announce
the purchase of a lot 110x247 just
south of Library Park on Park avenue
near Deming street. On this lot they
will erect the Terrace Court apartment
building, of which they will be owners
and lessees. Charles o. Augustine,
who has been the architect for many
of the largest structures in the city,
has been retained as architect for the
new project. and excavation will sbe
begun as soon as the architect can
complete plans for the basement Of the
building, which, it is expected will be
sometime within the next week.
The two Larsons have done consider
able of the construction work In the
residential districts on the south and
southwest section of the city, and they
believe that the time is now most APP
propriate for something bigger than
anything they or any one else has ever
attempted in Kenosha.
Have Faith In Future.
"Our faith in the future of the
southern section of the city has been
SO firm that we believe that this is a
step forward that will fill long-felt
need in Kenosha," was Louis Larson's
statement this morning. eve believe
that the hour is ripe for a project of
this kind, and we are planning to go
ahead with it at once"
The building which the Larsons are
contemplating will be U-shaped af-
fair of three floors and an English
basement. The lot on which the
building will be erected has just been
purchased from the joint owners,
James German and Patrick Moohan.
The completed structure will cost APP
proximately 100000, and will be alb
solutely fireproof, embodying the last
word in equipment and the most eff
ficient building accessories known to
modern construction engineering ac-
cording to Architect Augustine. The
building itself will be 95x134 with
q beautiful inner court and terrace
from which the man entrances to the
apartments will lead.
The building will be finished with
special face brick and Bedford stone.
1t will have four exposures providing
thirty outside apartments. The Ter
race Court apartment will have many
innovations in the way of apartment
construction. The contractors have
just returned from an inspection tour
of the largest and most beautiful as
we'll as luxurious apartment buildings
in the middle west and have en-
bodied in the plans for the Kenosha
building the best points found in
each of these.
Every apartment will be given
garage facilities for one car each,
There will be a laundry for each apart
ment tenant with private clothes
chutes, individual lockers, and prac-
tically everything necessary to the
convenience of the modern housewife
will be embodied in the time and labor
saving innovations which are to be
installed in the new building. There
will be a grocery store in the building
which will cater exclusively to its
tenants.
The Larsons have erected their own
planning mill on South Sheridan road
to handle all of their carpentry de-
mands during the construction of the
apartment building. They are plan
ming to sublet the concrete and
masonry work contracts.
Ballroom in Basement.
A ballroom and gathering place will
be built in the basement of the build
ing for the exclusive use of the ten
ants The English basement will be
arranged with individual store rooms
for each of the tenants, and the three
floors will be finished in oak and
mahogany throughout.
Entrance to the apartments will be
made from the terrace and interior
court leading into a vestibule from
which two apartments reach. Each
apartment will have four rooms con-
vertible into five-living room, dining
room, bed room, kitchen and one bed
closet off the living room with roll
away guest bed.
A fireplace is being installed in each
living room, and all cupboards, shelves,
plumbing fixtures, breakfast alcoves,
and closets are to be built in. The
basement will house garbage incinera-
tors and individual refrigerators.
1t is planned to furnish the entire
third floor and lease the first and
second floor apartments unfinished.
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