Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1894 — Full Seventy Thousand $ $ [ARTICLE]

Full Seventy Thousand $ $

EXPENDED ON BUILDINGS IN RENSSELAER IN 18W Thirty-six New Residences Have Been Built. According to our long established custom, we have prepared a summary of the year’s improvements in Rensselaer. The beginning of the year 1893, presented the most active building “boom” in the history of the town. The panic cut the boom off in the exuberance of its youth, but not until enough buildings had been completed or begun, to make the year a better one than the average, in resptet to improvements. Briefly mentioned the principal improvements were as follows: BUSINESS BUILDINGS; Sayler & Co., a 100 barrel roller process flouring mill, on Front street, W. R. Nowels & Son, a new 75 barrel roller processs flouring mill, and grain elevator remodeled.... $6,000 Frank Osborne, planing mill and wood-workings shops, on Vine street, Gillette & Hochstettler, iron foundry, Vine street SI,OOO Warner & Shead, store building on Van Rensselaer street. .... $920 A Leopold’, business rooms on Van Rensselaer street. S6OO RESIDENCES. F., M. Parker, two story house, north of Coen’s grove z $2,500 Wallace Robinson two story house on north Weston street ...... $2400

Mark H. Hemphill, two story house, comer Division and Susan streets $2,200 Ben]. Harns, two story house, Front street $2,400 Dr. J. W. Horton, two story house, corner Division and Cordelia streets $1,600 Frank Foltz, house on Work street... $1,500 Hiram Day, house on Cullen street W. A. Huff, house' corner Cullen and Harrison streets <sl3oo J. P. Hardman, house corner Weston and Rutson streets ...... $1,600 J. P. Hammond, house on Cullen street SI2OO S. C. Hammond, house on Cullen street..- SI2OO Geo. Hollister, house on Weston street ....... SI,OOO John Makeever, house on Cullen street. SI,OOO Conrad Hildebrand, house on Front street SI,OOO J. H. Perkins, house" in Leopold’s Addition $1,400

D. M. Yeoman, house in Weston’s Addition .. $1,600 Jos. Kight, house in Weston’s Addition $llOO Fred Schultz, house in Weston’s Addition ..... S7OO Lewis Thornton, house in Weston’s Addition SBOO James Thompson, house and barn in Newton’s Addition SI6OO Mrs. Nettie Hoover, rebuilding house in Newton’s Addition.. SI2OO H. T. Thornton, house in Thompson’s Addition. $1,200 George Pumphry, house in Thompson’s Addition SIOOO Johr. Irwin, house in Thompson’s Addition • S6OO

John Brenner, house in Magee A Benjamin’s Addition $2,000 Mrs. Mattie Bowman, house in Magee & Benjamin’s Addition. S6OO C. C. Brown, house in Magee & Benjamin’s Addition S3OO Wm. McElfresh, house in Leopolds’ Addition.... 1500 N. S. Jenkins, house in Leopold’s Addition 400 H. J. Bartoo, house in Peacoeh’s subdivision . 900 Henry Grow, house north of the depot .... 600 Reete Hopkins, house north of depot.., 900

Geo. Putts, house in Leopold’s Addition 600 M. L. Warren, house in Benjamin’s Addition ~...... 850 Frank Minicus, house in Leopold’s Addition 750 Thomas Chesnut, house in Owen’s subdivision 1,000 In addition to the above, many persons improved their property by enlarging or embellishing their houses, or business places, building barns, Ac. The following parties expending sums of from SIOO to SSOO. N. 8. Bates, Geo. Strickfaden, J. J. Eiglesbach, F. French, A. C. Bushey, A. Thompson, H. Harris, W. H. Rhoades, T. J. Sayier, Wm. Kessinger, Geo. McCarthy, Geo. E. Murray. By these and some few others, at least $5,000 was thus expended. The .above figures are nearly all

from the owners of the buildings, or from carpenters who built them. In a few cases however, where neither owners nor builders were seen, the sums are estimates, and some of them perhaps will need revision.