 The area was largely built from 1906 through the 1920s when streetcar and residential rail became accessible.Also the advent of ready-to-assemble homes such as Sears Catalog Homes made homeownership accessible to the primarily immigrant population of the city who could not afford the carpentry or craftsmanship to build single-family homes (or mansions) of the era.Most of these early homeowners were first and second generation Scandinavians who moved out from Cedar Riverside.