Charles F. Craver, owner of Craver & Steele manufacturers, built this large Italianate residence in 1883, after his original home at Seventh and Broad was destroyed by the 1882 cyclone.
Title
917 Reed Street
Alternative Title
819 Reed Street
Alternative Title
Charles F. Craver residence
Alternative Title
L. G. Pierce residence
owner
Craver, Charles F.
owner
Pierce, L. G.
Index Date
1910
photographed
1910-1911
Publisher
Grinnell College
Note
Charles F. Craver's company sold a harvesting machine known as a header. Craver originally owned two lots at this location, which had an alternative address of 819 Reed Street; he gave half of the property to his son, who built a house on Broad Street. Craver lived on Reed Street until 1889, when he moved his business to Harvey, Illinois. In 1917 the house's second owner, L. G. Pierce, sold it to the community, which demolished the house and built a hospital on the site.
Provenance
Gift of John Kleinschmidt, 1997
constructed
1883
demolished
1917
Topic
Architecture--United States
Topic
Dwellings
Geographic
Grinnell (Iowa)
Geographic
Poweshiek County (Iowa)
Temporal
Nineteen tens
Related Item
John Kleinschmidt Collection
Related Item
Poweshiek History Preservation Project
Related Item
Digital Grinnell
Genre
Photographs
Extent
1 photograph, b&w, 17.5 x 12.5 cm
Media Type
image/tiff
Digital Origin
digitized other analog
Language
English
Identifier (local)
grinnell:3281
Identifier (hdl)
http://hdl.handle.net/11084/3281
Physical Location
Grinnell College Libraries Special Collections
Shelf Locator
MS 39, Series 3 Photographs, Box 1A: Residential
Access Condition
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