These two buildings were built in c.1938 with the Waterloo Courier occupying the building at the Corner of Park Avenue and Commercial Streets and Montgomery Ward the neighboring one at the corner of West 4th Street and Commercial Street. Montgomery Ward eventually moved to a mall in Cedar Falls and the Courier took over both [...]
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This Prairie School style home at 3927 Country Club Boulevard was built in 1927-1928 for Oscar F. Albertson a pioneer in electric and pneumatic power hand tools. The house was designed by local Swedish-born architect Knute Enoch Westerlind and features a wood-frame structure with a brick veneer, stone trim, a green clay tile roof and [...]
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The house at 513 N. Court was built in the early 1880s for W.R. Daum President of the Electric Street Railway Company. The house is a contributing structure to the Court Hill Historic District which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The home is a unique example of brick Italianate [...]
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This part Greek Revival part Federal Style rowhouse at 314 Gaines St. is one of the oldest remaining buildings in Davenport as well as the oldest multiple-unit dwelling in the downtown area. Built of locally quarried stone and brick its earliest section was built as the home of German immigrant John Hiller in 1852 upon [...]
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This former school is among one of the rare two-story, two-room country schoolhouses built in Iowa, few of which are still standing. It was built in 1899 by local citizens who determined the need for a area high school so local students would not have to travel to Iowa City or Kalona. A corporation was [...]
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This stately home at 1434 1st Ave. S was built in 1897 for the 17th Governor of Iowa, Leslie M. Shaw. Mr. Shaw was an American businessman, lawyer and politician. He served as Governor from 1898 to 1902 and championed the gold standard. He gained attention from President Theodore Roosevelt and was appointed the 43rd [...]
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This structure on Highway 22 just east of Fairport is the only research-related structure remaining from an early 1900s federal mussel propagation initiative established to support the cultivation and preservation of the freshwater mussel population which was of economic importance to the region at that time. When the Fairport Station opened in 1914, the Pump [...]
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Construction began on the U.S. Post Office at 115 North 2nd Avenue East in 1928 and it operated here from 1929-1972. Following the relocation of the post office, the Jasper County Board of Supervisors purchased the building to house county offices which continues to the present day. The Neo-Classical Revival structure retains a generally high [...]
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The building now known as Mohawk Square located at 22 North Georgia Avenue/220 E. State St. served as the Mason City Senior High School from its construction in 1917-1918 until 1967. Noted composer and conductor Meredith Willson was a member of the first graduating class in 1919. The former school building was designed by architect [...]
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The 1904 Winneshiek County Courthouse is a Beax-Arts Classicism style building. The approximately 26,700 SF courthouse is a key contributing structure to the Broadway-Phelps Park Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building remains relatively unaltered featuring ornate decorative plaster, art glass dome, terrazzo flooring with inlaid mosaic, carved wood reliefs, [...]
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