{"id":3589,"date":"2012-05-03T15:46:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T20:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=3589"},"modified":"2012-05-03T15:46:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T20:46:20","slug":"100-years-ago-park-view-addition-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2012\/05\/03\/100-years-ago-park-view-addition-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Years Ago: Park View Addition Sale!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you had opened up the Davenport Democrat <\/em>on May 3, 1912, you would have found a two-page advertisement, announcing that 90 lots in the new Park View Addition—Gas, Water, Sewer, and Electricity included<\/em>— would be available for sale the next day.\u00a0 And the first fifty\u00a0lots\u00a0would be let go for the fantastic<\/em> price of $375 each, with a considerable discount for cash transactions.<\/p>\n

John Ochs and Sons, who were conducting the sale, invited interested would-be-land owners to take the Vander Veer street trolley up to the addition, where each lot was marked with a card—white for available, yellow for sold.\u00a0 Once you found the white-carded lot you wanted, you took the card to the office and put down your $175 deposit on the understanding that you would pay off the rest in two years.<\/p>\n

The new addition, the ad said, was just north and a bit east of the highly desirable area surrounding Vander Veer Park, where the lots were worth\u00a0$500 to $1200.\u00a0 This made $375 (or $8362 in 2010 dollars) seem like quite the bargain, especially with sewer and electricity thrown in, plus graded roads and public transportation within walking distance!<\/p>\n

And since many of the lots, with houses,\u00a0in the Park View Addition are\u00a0now valued at a rough average of $149,500,* which would\u00a0have been\u00a0about $6704 in 1912, it seems like a sound investment to us—and if we ever get that time machine working, we might drop by and pick up a few lots for ourselves!<\/p>\n

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*According to Scott County parcel records<\/a> and data from the 2010 Census.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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