Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1914 — Ed Oliver Building Fine New Home at Newland. [ARTICLE]

Ed Oliver Building Fine New Home at Newland.

Bon Smith and his gang of cement workers have been employed for the past three weeks on the cement work on Ed Oliver’s new mansion at Newland. This is really a remodeling and enlarging of the present house and when completed it will be tl]e finest farm house in Jasper county, covering with the porches, 43x62 feet. There are two basements, one 16x30 and another 20x26; a sleeping porch 10x20 and one porch around the house 120 feet in length, a part of which is 20 feet wide, the floors of which are reinforced concrete. The design is of bungalow style with stucco finish outside. A hot water heating system and waterworks and electric lights will be installed. There are two bathrooms, and the entire house will be modern in every respect. The remodeling will cost from $7,000 to SB,OOO.