Dwellings -- Iowa -- Fort Dodge; Fort Dodge (Iowa) -- Buildings, structures, etc.; Historic buildings -- Iowa -- Fort Dodge
Mr. and Mrs. Faville, son Stanton, and daughter, Marion, lived in the
home until 1921 when it was sold to Mrs. Martha Thompson, widow of S. H.
Thompson who owned and operated the Fort Dodge Cooperage Works here.
Faville, a law partner of Robert Healy, was prominent in legal circles
and in 1920 was elected to the Iowa Supreme Court. The Favilles then
moved to Des Moines where their son Stanton, was a well-known attorney
in later years.
The cooperage firm operated by Thompson was located in the vicinity of
Fifth Avenue North and Fifth Street and manufactured wooden buttertubs,
tanks, cisterns and casks as well as barrels for stucco, apples and
oatmeal. Following Thompson’s death the company was operated by members
of his family including the late M. T. Thompson.
The Thompson family retained ownership of the house at 1119 6th Ave. N.
for some time after Mrs. Thompson’s death. In 1940 it was sold to S. L.
Barrett, who for many years was sales manager and later president of the
Fort Dodge Laboratories. The Barretts owned the property until it was
purchased in 1961 by Anver and Betty Habhab.
The exterior front of the home was remodeled by the Habhabs in 1968 and
the large canopy with four columns extending from ground level to the
roof line was added. It covers an open patio area. Habhab operates
Anver’s Lounge in downtown Fort Dodge and the Rose-A-Rio Restaurant and
Lounge in the Crossroads.
THE CARTER HOME
[Illustration: The Carter home
510 So. Twelfth Street]
A Fort Dodge industrialist who operated a culvert manufacturing company
and an iron and steel mill here more than a half century ago, built this
large home at 510 S. 12th St. in 1915.
He was Charles L. Carter, who with a number of other Fort Dodgers
organized and operated the Fort Dodge Culvert Company in the vicinity of
Sixth Avenue North and Seventh Street. In addition to the south Twelfth
Street home he also erected the three-story building at 1018-1020
Central Avenue known in recent years as the Dunsmoor or Dee Building.
This building is now owned by Dodger Homes, a partnership of Fort Dodge
men including Leo Bevien, William Gibb, Gene Marchi and Richard Koberg.
Carter purchased the building lot for his home in 1914 and the following
year erected the home which has a stucco exterior. Originally the house
had a large living room that extended across the front interior, a sun
room, dining room and kitchen on the first floor. On the second floor
were three bedrooms, two sleeping porches, sewing room and bath.
Carter’s Central Avenue building had living quarters on the second and
third floors known as the Carter Apartments. The first floor had a large
room occupied by various business firms through the years and another
room leased out to a motion picture theater. The theater operated under
the name of the Majestic, Pokadot and finally the Dodge. The building
apartments are now known as the Dee Apartments.
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