Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1913 — Amos Alter Building Finest Farm House in Jasper Co. [ARTICLE]

Amos Alter Building Finest Farm House in Jasper Co.

Amos Alter and wife and son are about to complete the erection of the best farm house in Jasper county, on his Rose Bud farm, in Union township, northwest of Rensselaer. We have included the entire family in mentioning the house, because all of them have been greatly interested in making the plans and carrying them into execution. For many years Amos has had his way on the farm. Fine barns and cribs and mill and garage and all kinds of outbuildings have made Rose Bud one of the most attractive farms in the countq and Mrs. Alter was certain to have her day some time and when it came a house was planned that establishes Rose Bud as the very acme of farm perfection. The house is almost completed, lacking only the final touches to the floors and woodwork, the installation of the heating plant and the water fixtures. It contains the reception hall and library, the living room, dining room and kitchen on the main floor; four bedrooms and bath room on the second floor, a finished attic and a large basement, with heating plant and engine for the waterworks, while the hoiise has been wired for electric' lights, which will be installed a little later. From the living room, which is all finished in hardwood, stained in mahogany, a fine stairway leads to the second floor and another stairway proceeds from the kitchen, intersecting the other at a landing. The kitchen is made convenient by a commodious and nicely arranged pantry and also by a combined kitchen cabinet and sideboard which is constructed between the kitchen and dining room, the drawers r extending between and opening from either room. A clothes chute extends from the second floor to the basement, and a dumb waiter from the basement to the pantry, With an opening at ' the landing into the dining room.

The library and dining room are connected with the living room by large openings with „ beautiful columns and all are finished in mahogany. A stationary bookcase is built into the wall of the library. Commodious closets are provided for each bedroom, while a very large closet for bed clothes and linens opens into the upsatirs-'hall. The bathroom is large and well arranged, with permanent mirror, linen closet and medicine cabinet. The walls are finished, in white enamel. There is also a toilet o*n the first floor. The basement contains the furnace and engine for pumping the water, a coal bin for twenty tons of coal, and large bins for vegetables and shelves for fruit. Over a hundred bushels of potatoes and fifty bushels of apples are now in the basement, while the shelves are filled with an abundance of canned fruits and vegetables. The crowning gfory of the house is the great porch that extends across the front and down each side, a beautiful portico that sets the house off in a magnificent way. The fundation for the porch is built of small boulders, cemetned with black concrete and a ridge of white extending around each separate stone. A background of black cement at one o 4 the pillars at the .entrance to the parch is set with moonstones which Mr. Alter gathered last year on the beach while spending the winter in California. It reads: “Rose Bud Farm, Amos Alter & Son.” The building of a fine home like this is the result o! years of thrift and good farming and Mr. and Mrs. Alter are both young enough to get many happy years out of their magnificent new home.