Photograph of the house at 436 East Street, built in the 1860s for Samuel F. Cooper. The house sat on 40 acres well back from East Street, and its porte cochere was one of the few in town. The house was burned down by design in 1978.
Title
436 East Street
Alternative Title
Frank F. Almy residence
Alternative Title
S. F. Cooper residence
owner
Cooper, Samuel F.
owner
Almy, Frank F. (Faculty/Staff)
Index Date
1920
photographed
1920s
Publisher
Grinnell College
Note
Original owner Samuel F. Cooper was a banker, real estate agent, and politician. Later owner Frank F. Almy was a professor of physics at Grinnell College.
Provenance
Gift of John Kleinschmidt, 1997
constructed
1860s
demolished
1978
Topic
Architecture--United States
Topic
Dwellings
Geographic
Grinnell (Iowa)
Geographic
Poweshiek County (Iowa)
Temporal
Nineteen twenties
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:3261
Identifier (hdl)
http://hdl.handle.net/11084/3261
Physical Location
Grinnell College Libraries Special Collections
Shelf Locator
MS 39, Series 3 Photographs, Box 1: Residential
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.).
