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Title: 1105 Park Street
Description: 1105 Park Street on the northwest corner of Sixth Avenue and Park Street in Grinnell, Iowa. This house was torn down in order to build the Grinnell College John Chrystal Center which was completed in 2002.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:27186

Title: 1405 Broad Street
Description: 1405 Broad Street on the northwest corner of 9th Avenue and Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa, August 1961.
Date Created: 1961
PID: grinnell:27187

Title: 411 First Avenue
Description: Photograph of 411 First Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa, in the early 1960s. This house was the home of the Renfrow family for many years.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:12185

Title: 411 First Avenue
Description: Photo of the home of the Renfrow family at 411 First Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa in the 1960s.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:12195

Title: 815 Seventh Avenue, 815 7th Avenue
Description: 815 Seventh Avenue, Grinnell, Iowa, in 1964. This house was the home of Benjamin and Gladys Schoonover Tarleton from 1921 or 1922 until the mid-1980s.
Date Created: 1964
PID: grinnell:12036

Title: 818 Elm Street
Description: 818 Elm Street in Grinnell, Iowa. This was the home of Mabel Stemsrud, and it was built by her son, Bert Stemsrud in 1948. The home was ordered from a catalog. Bert drove his tractor and a hay wagon into Grinnell from his Ewart farm and unloaded the house materials from a railway car. Bert and his brothers would bring loads of cobs from corn shelling to Mabel. She used those in her kitchen Home Comfort stove for cooking. She also had a cob fired hot water heater in the basement. Mabel kept a large garden and many fruit trees.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:20681

Title: Aerial Photo of Grinnell 1967
Description: Aerial photo of downtown Grinnell taken by Dave Heise from a helicopter in July 1967 during Ridiculous Days. This view looks to the southeast. The intersection at the bottom of the image, just to the right of center, is the intersection of 6th Avenue and West Street.
Date Created: 1967
PID: grinnell:6230

Title: Aerial View of 4th Avenue and State Street
Description: Aerial photograph looking north from the intersection of 4th Avenue, State Street and the railroad tracks in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1967. Grinnell Motor Company is visible in the center of the photo with Brand Apartments just to the left.
Date Created: 1967
PID: grinnell:6404

Title: Aerial View of Bailey Homestead
Description: Aerial view of the James Bailey homestead west of Grinnell, Iowa on Eleventh Avenue. Photo ca. 1960s.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:5830

Title: Aerial View of Downtown Grinnell
Description: Aerial photograph of downtown Grinnell, Iowa, looking north along Broad Street from Central Park in 1967. Many Grinnell landmarks are visible: Merchants National Bank, Cunningham Drug, Stewart Library, the post office, Saint Mary's Catholic Church, the Colonial Theatre, Spaulding House.
Date Created: 1967
PID: grinnell:6406