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Title: Main Street, Allison, Iowa, Famers Savings Bank, Stark & Isaacson, Grocers
Description: Looking southwest on Main street at downtown Allison which includes Stark & Isaacson, Grocers, the Farmers Savings Bank, a pool room and a restaurant. Number 19. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13639

Title: Main Street, Cherokee, Iowa
Description: Looking west from the Main Street business district in Cherokee, Iowa. Sign with Gust Hokanson, Merchant Tailor, on the left.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14086

Title: Main Street, Dexter, Iowa, Marshall Street
Description: Looking north on Main Street with water pumps in the foreground and horses and wagon in the background. Dexter was founded in 1868.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:16068

Title: Main Street, Doon, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest at Main Street in Doon, Iowa, with a barbershop, ice cream parlor, and restaurant. Doon was incorporated in 1892 with founder, H.D. Rice, as its first mayor.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:16838

Title: Main Street, Elliott, Iowa, J.T. Ralston, Dentist, Dr. Baldwin, The New Cash Store
Description: Looking east from Main Street with a dentist's office, doctor's office, bank, and hardware and tinware store on the right.
PID: grinnell:15605

Title: New Presbyterian Church, Brighton, Iowa
Description: Looking at the two-story new Presbyterian Church with bell tower in Brighton. It was built between 1900-1909.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14166

Title: Saint Angela Academy, St. Angela Domestic Science Institute, Normal College, Newton, Iowa
Description: Normal College was originally founded as a private school called the Hazel Dell Academy by Professor Darius Thomas in 1856. In 1893, the school was sold to Professor G.W. Wormley who moved it to a new location and named it the Newton Normal College. Business and teaching classes were taught there until its closing in 1906.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13532

Title: Observatory Building, Des Moines, Iowa, Van Ginkel Building
Description: The first skyscraper in Iowa stood was on Locust Street reported at a height of 197 feet and heralded as "the tallest office building between Chicago and San Francisco" when it opened in 1896. It included a distinctive five-story observation tower and provided electricity and gas lighting to all tenants. The building was eventually demolished in1937, and this location is now occupied by Capital Square Mall. 1905 postmark. Number 105.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:16137

Title: Office of Herring Cottage, "The Swellest Little Hotel in Iowa", Belle Plaine, Iowa, Herring Hotel, The Herring, Hotel Herring, The Graham House Hotel
Description: Looking inside at the front office to Herring Cottage showing a table with a fan plugged into the ceiling light, front desk, and a piano in the parlor. The Herring Cottage, owned and operated by William P. Herring, ran a small auto bus from the hotel to the railroad depot to pick up guests and deliver them back to the train. The hotel was originally built in Colonial Revival style in 1900, designed by Cedar Rapids architect, Charles A. Dieman, and contracted by James Park of Belle Plaine. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13789

Title: Orphans home, Beloit, Iowa, Lutheran Children's Home
Description: The Lutheran Children's Home was established by Norwegian Lutherans in 1890. The farm consisted of 617 acres of land. The home was closed in 1945 and the children's home was moved to Ames, Iowa.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13735