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Home Quarters Warehouse (HQ) was an American chain of "big-box" home improvement stores, originally based in Virginia Beach, Virginia.In 1984, the chemical manufacturing company W.R. Grace & Co. announced its intentions to enter the home improvement retail business, hiring Bernard R. Kossar and Frank Doczi to head the new chain.
Lustron House - moved to 245 Penn St, Carlisle, Iowa; Lustron Home No. 02102 - 2009 Williams Blvd. SW, Cedar Rapids, Iowa NRHP-listed in Linn County. Lustron House - 433 Dunreath Drive NE Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 currently for sale; Lustron House - 708 11th Ave, Coralville, Iowa; Lustron House - 3706 53rd St, Des Moines, Iowa
The Rt. Rev. George D. Gillespie consecrated the church on January 10, 1884. The church contains historic stained-glass windows representing the Holy Sacrament, St. John the Evangelist, and St. Mary, the Mother of God. In 1996, the church building underwent extensive restoration and renovations, much of which was completed by parishioners.
formerly Metropolitan Redwood Lumber Company #1; purchased October 1935; scrapped 1953 [29] 37 American Locomotive Company: 2-8-2 Tank locomotive 1924 660333 purchased 1935 from Sugar Pine Lumber Company; sold 1966 [27] Began excursion service at the Wilmington Western railroad from 1987-1990. Currently open air stored at the Strasburg railroad ...
This is a list of properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places within the city limits of St. Louis, Missouri, south of Interstate 64 and west of Downtown St. Louis. For listings in Downtown St. Louis, see National Register of Historic Places listings in Downtown and Downtown West St. Louis.
The Weyerhaeuser Company (/ ˈ w ɛər h aʊ z ə r / WAIR-how-zər) is an American timberland company which owns nearly 12,400,000 acres (19,400 sq mi; 50,000 km 2) of timberlands in the U.S., and manages an additional 14,000,000 acres (22,000 sq mi; 57,000 km 2) of timberlands under long-term licenses in Canada. [5]
To feed the mill McCormick's St. Helens Timber Company also purchased 4,000 acres of timber. In 1912 McCormick formed the St. Helens Lumber Company as parent company over Helens Mill Company and the St. Helens Timber Company. In 1912 McCormick expanded the company with a second sawmill, a creosoting plant and shipyard, the St. Helens shipyard.
The Saginaw Valley & St. Louis Railroad was constructed to the village in 1871, and Saint Louis grew in population and size in the 1870s and 1880s, mainly due to the steady stream of visitor to the mineral baths. In 1881, a new ordinance required all new building construction downtown to be of brick.