CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A long-vacant historic home in the Wellington Heights neighborhood is being brought back to life — and will soon house two families in need of affordable housing.
Matthew 25, a Cedar Rapids nonprofit, is restoring the Coe-Paul House, a 160-year-old property that sat empty for nearly 20 years. The house originally belonged to St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, which donated the home along with $150,000, rather than tear it down.
“It’ll take a lot of TLC,” said Clint Twedt-Ball, executive director of Matthew 25. “The roof has to be replaced, the outside has to be fixed, inside there were critters living in it it really is kind of a start-from-scratch rebuild.”…