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Venetian Ball Room, Hotel Savery, Des Moines, Iowa

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Looking at the Venetian Ball Room located on the second floor of the Savery Hotel which displayed influences of Mediterranean Revival architecture on its design. The hotel is an eleven-story limestone and brick building that rises 140 feet (43 m) above the ground. H.L. Stevens & Co. designed the current 233-room hotel in the Colonial Revival style and it was the third Savery Hotel to be built in Des Moines, opening in 1919. It was later rebuilt in 1930 and renovated extensively in 1999 and in 2016-2017. Located at 400 Locust Street, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa and listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Number 1748.
Title Venetian Ball Room, Hotel Savery, Des Moines, Iowa
Alternative TitleSavery Hotel
Alternative TitleSavery III
Alternative TitleRenaissance Des Moines Savery Hotel
supporting host Grinnell College Libraries Special Collections
Index Date 1925
Publisher E.C. Kropp Co. (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Type of Resource still image
Genre postcard
Physical Extent 1 postcard : color ; 9 x 14 cm.
Medium Hand-tinted real photo reprint, divided back.
Note Color
citation/reference National Register of Historic Places (http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/)
Date Issued 1920-1930
Note Purchase or donation
Note Scanned with HP Scanjet 4670 at 600 ppi. Archival master image available in tiff format.
Language English
Topic Hotels
Topic Advertising cards
Topic Interiors
Topic Ballrooms
Topic Public accommodation facilities
Topic Rooms & spaces
Topic Polk County (Iowa)
Topic Des Moines (Iowa)
Cartographic 41.587679, -93.622999
Classification MS 108, Box 2, ihpc_desa0057
Related Item Iowa Historical Postcard Collection (IHPC)
Related Item Grinnell College. Special Collections and Archives
Related Item Digital Grinnell
Identifier (local) ihpc_desa0057
Identifier (local) grinnell:16857
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Identifier (hdl) http://hdl.handle.net/11084/16857
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