Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1877 — Leopold’s Addition. [ARTICLE]

Leopold’s Addition.

Adjoining the original plat of the town of Rensselaer on the east, is a tract of some seventy acres of as fine land as Jasper county affords. This body is owned by Mr. A. Leopold,one of the most enterprising, far seeing and prosperous citizens of the town, who has just completed the survey and platting of the tract into blocks, lots, streets and alleys. Most of the vacant lots in the original plat of, and older additions to, Rensselaer have been heftl by the owners at prices beyond the reach of mechanics and men who support their families by small jobs and day’s labor. It is to afford this class of people an opportunity to procure homes of their own, and at the same time to realize a profit for himself, that Mr. Leopold has placed his pioperty on the market in its present shape. It will be seen by referring to the advertising columns of this paper that Mr. Thomas Boroughs is agent for the sale of 248 of these lots. We are iuforifoed by both Mr. Boroughs and Mr. Leopold that the prices, which nf course are graded upon a basis of location, have been made with a full consideration of the E resent condition of finances and usiness, and are barely enough to give a reasonable margin over the actual cost of the tract and pay expenses of surveying, platting and incidentals, while the terms are so liberal as to place a home within the reach of any industrious man or woman. While it is preferred to sell these lots to those who will build upon and improve them, a portion at lease will be disposed of in bulk to persons desiring to make an investment of surplus money where a reasonable profit may be confidently anticipated. Leopold’s Addition covers many choice sites for dwellings, and at uo distant day, will, no doubt, be considered the handsomest portion of Rensselaer. 9-17-Bm.