Photograph of the destruction at Seventh Avenue and Broad Street, looking west, following the cyclone of 1882. The storm left the house in the foreground, owned by Charles F. Craver, in ruins. The house in the background, owned by L. C. Phelps, lost its roof and east wall.
Photograph of the aftermath of the 1882 cyclone that destroyed much of the town of Grinnell. Broad Street is at left, and Seventh Avenue runs through the center of the image.
Photograph of the house at Sixth Avenue and Broad Street, built sometime before 1884. It was originally owned by George Magoun, the first president of Iowa (Grinnell) College. The house, which faced east onto Broad Street, did not originally have a number, as the town began numbering houses and buildings in 1893.
Photograph of the southwest corner of Broad Street and Commercial Street, Grinnell, Iowa, about 1910. Store is home to the W.W. Kimball Piano Co. dealership which is advertising pianos, sewing machines, and organs for sale. Two women in a horse and buggy on the dirt street. Man standing in the doorway of the store. Building block is 1889 Black(?) Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Collection # 17, Box # 1.
