The Bickett-Rate Memorial Preserve Barn is located near the unincorporated village of Buchanan. It is a structure on property associated with the 1854 Hannah Morse Fowler Hall House which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The red painted barn was built in 1922 by the Stoltenberg Brothers of rural Tipton […]
The Central Battery Building at 217-221 West 5th Street is one of the few office over retail structures left on Waterloo’s west side. The Arts and Craft style building was built in 1912 and is unusual for its use of white and green brick on the façade. Situated near the recently designated Waterloo West Commercial […]
St. Patrick’s parish was organized in 1924 with the purpose of serving the growing Catholic community in northeast Council Bluffs, as well as those who worked at Mercy Hospital nearby. Construction of the English Gothic-style church was completed in 1926. The red granite cobblestones used in the church are purported to have originally paved a […]
Built between 1916 and 1918, the three-story structure at 615 Douglas Street was designed as a motor-mart for automobile dealership owner Harry A. Wetmore. The Wetmore Automobile Agency sold Chalmers and Saxon automobiles as well as Waterloo Boy farm tractors. Wetmore began manufacturing his own farm tractors in the building in 1918. Wetmore tractors won […]
The C.C. Wolf Mansion at 401 5th Street was built in 1895 for local banker and land speculator Charles C. Wolf and his wife Mary. Designed by architect Harry E. Netcott of Independence, this grand Richardsonian Romanesque style home sported copper gutters, a slate roof, three-story tower, and elaborate roof décor including a gargoyle. The […]
The Marshalltown Downtown Historic District encompasses the 200 block of East Main to the 100 block of West Main, and side streets from 3rd Street to 3rd Avenue from Church Street to State Street. The historic district was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 and is a representative collection of the […]