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Title: 1018, 1020 and 1024 Fifth Avenue, 1018, 1020 and 1024 5th Avenue
Description: Two views of 1018, 1020 and 1024 Fifth Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. 1018 is on the right, 1020 in the middle, and 1024 on the left. These houses which were on the south side of Fifth Avenue between Park and State Streets were razed for the construction of Drake Community Library in 2009. These photos were probably taken in the 1990s. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1990
PID: grinnell:11769

Title: 120 Main Street
Description: Duplex at 120 Main Street, Grinnell, Iowa, built by Bohstedt Construction in 1990.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:21197

Title: 631 East Street
Description: Apartment building at 631 East Street in Grinnell, Iowa, built by Bohstedt Construction in 1990.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:21196

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: 815 Seventh Avenue in 1976, 815 7th Avenue in 1976
Description: View of 815 Seventh Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1976. This house was the home of Benjamin and Gladys Schoonover Tarleton.
Date Created: 1976
PID: grinnell:12037

Title: 817 Seventh Avenue, 817 7th Avenue
Description: View of 817 Seventh Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1976. 817 is the red tinted concrete block and stucco home. The yellow house is 815 Seventh Avenue. Ben and Gladys Tarleton lived at 815 Seventh Avenue. Their daughter, Dorothy who married Philip Palmer, moved to 817 Seventh Avenue from a home on East Street in about 1950 so that they could be near the Tarletons. In 1953, Philip and Dorothy Palmer and their children moved to Colorado.
Date Created: 1976
PID: grinnell:12059

Title: 913 Eighth Avenue, 913 8th Avenue
Description: Doris and Ray George's 1960 Christmas card with a wintertime view of their house at 913 Eighth Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. The picture was taken the year before.
Date Created: 1959
PID: grinnell:11760

Title: 932 Park Street
Description: The Grinnell home of Charles Austin and Nora Belle Palmer at 932 Park Street, the southeast corner of 5th Avenue and Park Street in 1938 or 1939.
Date Created: 1938
PID: grinnell:12012

Title: Charles H. Spencer House
Description: View of the Charles H. Spencer House in Grinnell, Iowa, probably taken in early fall 1882. The Spencers owned the half block on the east side of Main Street between 6th and 7th Avenues. The house originally sat at 1116 Main Street with outbuildings and greenhouses to the north and a generous lawn to the south (visible on the right hand side of the picture.) The house was moved to the vicinity of the southeast corner of Pearl Street and 6th Avenue (the site of the public safety building in 2016). It was then moved a third time to 611 Sixth Avenue. For many years it was the Christian Science reading room and in 2016 it became a gift shop for a few years. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Date Created: 1882
PID: grinnell:27170