Madison Ave SE, Prospect Ave SE
1974 Madison Ave SE
Real estate card states: vestibule, living room with fireplace, formal dining room, den, sunroom, kitchen with eating area, 3 bedrooms, full bath. Beamed ceilings, hardwood floors, walk-in closets. Bath with shower in basement. 1 and half stall attached garage. est. built 1939. full basement
2000 Madison Ave SE
Burton side Madison Snow
Real Estate Card 1997:
Unit 1 - entry, living room, dining room, kitchen, porch, UP: 2 bedrooms,
bath plus basement
Unit 2 - living room with fireplace, formal dining room, kitchen, bedroom with
fireplace,1 additional bedroom, bath on first floor,
den in basement
Unit 3 - living room, bedroom is alcove off living room, kitchen, bath, porch
City Assessor:
1937
c.1951 
c.2005
2030 Madison Ave SE
Real estate card 1975 states: Foyer, living room, formal dining
room, kitchen breakfast room, half bath
UP: 4 huge bedrooms, 1 bath. Family roof above garage. Built of brick. full
basement. screened porch and patio, stained glass windows.
City Assessor:
1937
1951
2005
2036-2040 Madison Ave SE
1941
City Assessor's:
The 1968 card states: duplex, average wood frame, brick veneer, sandstone, moderate trim, compos shingles, full basement, cement floor, hardwood trim, hardwood floors, plaster walls and ceilings, 2 hot air gas furnaces, air conditioning added 1994, 2 baths tile walls and floor, 2 lavatories, 8 rooms on the first floor, 6 on the second, attached garage with rooms above. built 1939, quality B+. Very large, overbuilt for income property, very limited market for such a unique house. 1992 sq. feet on main floor.
I just love this house. It is so special and different.
It was common for the homes around public parks to be quite showy. Public parks used to be everyone's front yard. Socializing was done on the front porch. It wasn't necessary for each person to have a large private fenced back yard. If you wanted to relax in a garden, you went to a public park. WE THE PEOPLE did the best WE could do together. Then the parks became cesspools full of drug paraphernalia and used condoms from the "if it feels good, just do it" generation and the me, myself and I generation replaced We the People.
US Census 1930: 2030 Madison Ave SE pg 172, line 72
George Hoekzema head owner $88,000, no radio, 58, married 1st age 25 b.
Netherlands par b. Netherlands imm 1888 naturalized
Cristine 54 1st married age 19 b. Netherlands par b. Netherlands immi 1893
naturalized building contractor
Minnie Jordan servant 29 single b. Michigan par b. Netherlands servant for a
private family
Real Estate card 1977: Each unit; entrance, living room,
dining room, family room, kitchen, half bath
up; 3 bedrooms and bath.
1960 Prospect Ave SE
Real Estate cards: huge foyer, living room, formal dining
room, kitchen, mud room, family room with fireplace, plant room.
UP: 4 bedrooms and bath, screened-in porch, Michigan Basement, 2-stall garage
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