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Salisbury House, Home of the Iowa State Education Association

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Looking north at the Tudor-style manor designed by architects Boyd and Moore of Des Moines and William Whitney Rasmussen of New York and completed in 1928 at a cost of $1.5 million. On verso: "Patterned after King's House, Salisbury, England, this 42-room manor house was built by Carl Weeks, widely-known cosmetic manufacturer. The Weeks' collections of art and other cultural items from around the world was retained by the Iowa State Education Association (ISEA) when it purchased the house as its headquarters in 1954." The building is located at 4025 Tonawanda Drive, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Number 163.534.
Title Salisbury House, Home of the Iowa State Education Association
supporting host Grinnell College Libraries Special Collections
Index Date 1970
Publisher Brown & Bigelow, Inc.
Type of Resource still image
Genre postcard
Physical Extent 1 postcard : color ; 9 x 14 cm.
Medium Color lithograph print, divided back. Made in USA.
Note Color
citation/reference National Register of Historic Places (http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/)
Date Issued 1960-1975
Note Purchase or donation
Note Scanned with HP Scanjet 4670 at 600 ppi. Archival master image available in tiff format.
Language English
Topic Office buildings
Topic Organizations' facilities
Topic Organizations
Topic Iowa State Education Association
Topic Historic buildings
Topic Polk County (Iowa)
Topic Des Moines (Iowa)
Topic Salisbury House
Cartographic 41.579436, -93.671708
Classification MS 108, Box 2, ihpc_desa0131
Related Item Iowa Historical Postcard Collection (IHPC)
Related Item Grinnell College. Special Collections and Archives
Related Item Digital Grinnell
Identifier (local) ihpc_desa0131
Identifier (local) grinnell:14691
Access Condition Grinnell College Libraries does not own the copyright in these images and therefore cannot give or deny permission to publish or distribute any of them. It is the researcher's responsibility to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or distributing material from this collection. Any materials used must carry a credit line: Historic Iowa Postcard Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Grinnell College Libraries.
Identifier (hdl) http://hdl.handle.net/11084/14691
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