Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1901 — Railroad Through a Block of Houses. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Through a Block of Houses.

The new electric railroad In Berlin will run through a block of bouses, being enabled to do so by the removal of the lower portion of one of them. This block Is opposite the Lutheran Church, near the corner of Dennewitz and Bulow streets. When the surveyors announced that the line would have to pass through this house, the railroad company purchased it aud ordered that a requisite opening be made by taking away the first and second stories. The upper portion of the building they decided to preserve, as the rooms In It could be easily transformed into satisfactory offices for their clerks and some of the other railroad officials.