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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: 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: 827 Broad Street, Johnson & Wadsworth Drug Store
Description: Photograph of the Johnson & Wadsworth Drug Store and other Broad Street businesses before the 1889 fire. A tailor shop was located at 825 Broad, and a two-story confectionery at 831 Broad. A delivery wagon for Preston & Proctor Groceries is visible at far right.
Date Created: 1880
PID: grinnell:3297

Title: 900 Block of Main Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of the west side of the 900 block of Main Street in Grinnell, Iowa. A horse-drawn Co-operative Delivery wagon is being unloaded in front of Wesco and Roby Grocery which was located at 909 Main Street. Also visible is J.W. Harpster Furniture and Undertaking. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:11237

Title: 900 Block of Main Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of the 900 block of Main Street, Grinnell, Iowa, about 1907. Visible businesses include Mullins Pharmacy, Meat Market (McNallys?), The Leader, Lyric Theater, Bates & Stoaks Drugs, and Stick the Barber. Horse-drawn wagons in the mud streets. "No Swimming Here" sign posted by mud puddle in the middle of the street. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1907
PID: grinnell:6263

Title: 904 High Street, Charles R. Morse residence, Jan and Jacque Anderson residence, Sharp Lannom II residence
Description: Photograph of the frame house at 904 High Street, built in 1894 for Charles R. Morse. When Morse tired of his house at 531 Park Street, he moved uptown and built this mansion.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:3260

Title: 911 High Street
Description: 911 High Street in Grinnell, Iowa, built by Ed Bohstedt in 1940.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:21187

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: 920 Park Street
Description: Two views of Nora Harbour's house at 920 Park Street in Grinnell, Iowa, on September 30, 1950. Hazel Tish's apartment was in the front upstairs. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:12927