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Title: High school, Chester, Iowa
Description: Looking at the entrance to a four-story brick and stone building. Notice the bell on the roof with the rope going down to the center fourth floor window. Number 1625.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:14082

Title: Hotel Colfax, Colfax, Iowa, "Saratoga of the West"
Description: Built by the Old M.C. Springs Development and Improvement Company around 1882 at a cost of $100,000, the Hotel Colfax was originally known as the "Saratoga of the West" and located near the Old Magnesian Chalybeate. After the corporation's management failed in 1892, the hotel was sold to Wesley Jordan for $10,000. In 1904 the hotel was once again losing money so it was sold at a sheriff's sale to Col. James P. Donahue of Davenport. He invested between $600,000 and $700,000 in the property over a four-year period by adding 200 rooms, an electric railway into Colfax, and remodeling of both the inside and outside of the building in a Moorish design. The building was named a miniature city due to the garage and ice and cold storage plants, its electric powerhouse, pumping system and laundry. It is located at 900 North League Road, Colfax, Jasper County, Iowa and is currently being used by Teen Challenge of the Midlands. Number 17186.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:14568

Title: Hotel Maytag, Newton, Iowa
Description: Looking east at the Hotel Maytag which was dedicated on December 21, 1926. Number B-192.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:14323

Title: Jimmy Ley to Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Ley - June 9, 1940
Description: Jimmy tells Ruthy and Bill about his dirty pants, beautiful mountains, and the dust bowl.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:11433