Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1917 — MANY ELEGANT BUILDINGS ERECTED [ARTICLE]

MANY ELEGANT BUILDINGS ERECTED

Thirty-Eight Buildings Costing Almost $115,000, Erected in Rensselaer in the Year 1916. == —■ ■/ ~ The citizens of Rensselaer can point with pride to the record made in 1916 in* the way of new buildings erected. Thirty-four elegant new homes were erected. Three homes were/remodeled at an expense equal to the cost of an average home. One new public building was built at a cost of about $16,000. When we consider that two of these buildings cost over $5,000 each, that six of them costover $4,000, and that nine of them cost over $3,000 each, we can better appreciate the kind of buildings that have been added to the already large number of elegant homes in this city. Much attention has been given to the artistic. Many of these beautiful homes have been surrounded by elegant lawns. Most of them are thoroughly modern and up-to-date in every particular. The newly organized building and loan association has been a very material help in this splendid home building campaign and it is believed that 1917 will see this campaign prolonged and possibly increased. The hospital building, which was erected at a cost of a little more than $16,000, will be more than duplicated by the elegant building. to be erected by the First National Bank at a cost qf $30,000 or more. A contract for the erection of this building was let to Medland Brothers; of Logansport, on January 23. We have taken considerable pains in arriving at the number of houses erected and also in estimating the cost of each. It is very probable that there may be errors. Some new homes may be omitted from our list and the price named may not be exact. We will very gladly publish any correction that may be furnished to us. —Here is the list, which does not include a large amount expended in enlarging and repairing many of the homes in the city: MrS. Martindale $3,000 Goetz Sisters .... 1 3,200 J. A. Dunlap 5,000 Alex Merica .. 5,000 William Hoover 4,000 George McLain 4,000 Mrs. Wm. Washbum 4,000 John Werner 2,500 Joseph Jeffries 2,000 Fred McColly ..4,500 Charles Warner 3,000 Mattie Hemphill 2,800 County Hospital 16,000 Ernest Lamson '3,000 George Long .. 4,000 C. Earl Duvall 3,500 George W. Hopkins ... 2,500 Vern Hopkins . .. .1,200 A. F. Long T 7, 1,600 H. B. Avis 1,000 Riley Miller 1,200 Fred Chapman 3,500 Sylvester Gray 3,500 William Platt •.**l,ooo Day & Yeiter 1,509 Hiram Day IJSOO Abe Wartena .. 3,000 Victor Comer 800 Presbyterian Parsonage 4,200 E. K. Godshall 2,800 Mrs. Mark Reed 1,500 David Haste 1,800 Mrs. Ida Benjamin 1,600 John Medicus 900 C. W. Soencor 1,600 Mrs. Noble York 2,000 William Havens .. 1,400 Thorsten Otterburg 3,000 Total .....?i^w..... $112,600