Photograph of the Armory building at 816 Fifth Avenue. It was constructed of rock face concrete blocks in 1907 and leased to the Grinnell Armory Association for 10 years.
Title
Grinnell Armory
Alternative Title
816 Fifth Avenue
owner
Clark, E. W.
owner
Coutts, R. G.
owner
Beyer, C. W. H.
Index Date
1907
photographed
1907?
Publisher
Grinnell College
Note
Owners included R. G. Coutts, C. W. H. Beyer, and E. W. Clark, a builder, banker, and doctor. The Armory later served as a car dealership and garage, United Grocery, and Pagliai's Pizza.
Provenance
Gift of John Kleinschmidt, 1997
constructed
1907
Topic
Architecture--United States
Topic
Armories
Geographic
Grinnell (Iowa)
Geographic
Poweshiek County (Iowa)
Temporal
Nineteen hundreds (Decade)
Related Item
John Kleinschmidt Collection
Related Item
Poweshiek History Preservation Project
Related Item
Digital Grinnell
Genre
Photographs
Extent
1 photograph, b&w, 18.5 x 11 cm
Media Type
image/tiff
Digital Origin
digitized other analog
Language
English
Identifier (local)
grinnell:3294
Identifier (hdl)
http://hdl.handle.net/11084/3294
Physical Location
Grinnell College Libraries Special Collections
Shelf Locator
MS 39, Series 3 Photographs, Box 2: Commercial
Access Condition
Copyright to this work is held by the author(s), in accordance with United States copyright law (USC 17). Readers of this work have certain rights as defined by the law, including but not limited to fair use (17 USC 107 et seq.).
