Grinnell College Libraries Special Collections and Archives

Contains materials re: financing dormitory construction; Housing and Home Finance Agency (HHFA) loan, bonds. 1957-1960; Norris Hall financing bonds, loans, 1958-1975.

Real Estate Files: A - C

US US-IaGG Archives/RG-T-5-1-1
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Part of RG-T: Treasurer's Office Records 1847-1980

Beadle County, SD. D. W. Norris farm

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Bestanddeel
1930-1936

Part of RG-T: Treasurer's Office Records 1847-1980

Bray House. 1110 Main St.

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Bestanddeel
1929-1936

Part of RG-T: Treasurer's Office Records 1847-1980

Bowen, A. B. Rock Valley, IA, farm

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Bestanddeel
1930-1937

Part of RG-T: Treasurer's Office Records 1847-1980

Cerro Gordo County IA farm

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1928-1937

Part of RG-T: Treasurer's Office Records 1847-1980

Records for this farm are preserved in toto because they provide a description of various aspects of the farm economy in the 1930s. Correspondence of Lonnie and Hoarace Trees, brothers who farmed the land, L. V. Phelps, banks (much with Bankers Life), vendors, real estate agents contain considerable detail including: Livestock diseases, sales, prices, inventories of holdings Crops: first trials of hybrid corn (1937), sowing, harvesting, storage, marketing, disease control Building and equipment purchases and repairs Personal tragedies: death of Trees' son from typhoid August-Sept. 1937, auto accident April 1937 Finances: Trees' loans, prices for buying and selling livestock, seed and crops, expenditures. College's loans, mortage with Bankers Life, taxes, etc.

Chattel Mortgages, Lonnie Trees