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Title: Main Street, Ames, Iowa, Cooley & Jones
Description: Looking west on Main Street at street trolley tracks. Cooley & Jones Harness shop is on the left. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13874

Title: Main Street, Cushing, Iowa
Description: Looking north on Main Street with what appears to be a farmer and wagon on the left and a possible stagecoach on the right. There is a grain and coal store on the left and a restaurant in the right background. 1906 postmark. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1906
PID: grinnell:16217

Title: Main Street, Delmar, Iowa, Lunch Room Restaurant, Commercial Hotel
Description: Looking south on Main Street with the Lunch Room Restaurant in the left foreground and the Commercial Hotel in the right background.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:16942

Title: Masonic Temple, Algona, Iowa, Rutherford House, Kossuth County Hotel, Algona Hospital
Description: Looking northeast at a building that housed lodgers as the Rutherford House around 1881, then was remodeled and used as the Algona Hospital from 1907 to 1931 and then the Masonic Temple in 1931. In 1973 the building was torn down to make room for a drive-up bank. Number S-109.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:14278

Title: Mercy Hospital, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: Looking at Mercy Hospital founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1893. This building was located on the northwest corner of 4th and Ascension. In 1907, it could accommodate 125 patients and today Mercy has 802 beds and more than 6,600 employees. It is the longest continually operating hospital in Des Moines. 1907 postmark.
Date Created: 1907
PID: grinnell:16142

Title: Mercy Hospital, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: Looking at Mercy Hospital founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1893. This building was located on the northwest corner of 4th and Ascension. In 1907, it could accommodate 125 patients and today Mercy has 802 beds and more than 6,600 employees. It is the longest continually operating hospital in Des Moines. 1913 postmark.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:16141

Title: Methodist Church, Cherokee, Iowa, First Methodist Church, St. Paul's United Methodist Church
Description: Looking southeast at a two-story brick building built and dedicated on February 21, 1915. By congregational vote, the name of the church was changed from “First Methodist Church” to “St. Paul’s Methodist Church” in 1947. The church is located at 531 W. Main Street, Cherokee, Cherokee County, Iowa. Number 24162-5.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:13561

Title: Montrose Hotel, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Sheraton Montrose, Hotel Montrose
Description: Looking south at the 6 story brick and stone hotel building built in 1906 on the corner of Third Street and Third Avenue and owned by hoteliers Jackson E. Montrose and Charles McHugh. The hotel was taken over by Eugene Eppley in 1917. Grant Wood was noted as painting murals for the hotel's mezzanine. While the original plans for the hotel called for seven stories, the top floor was not added until the early 1920s. Unlike the floors below, it did not feature balconies on the Third Avenue side of the building. The Montrose was demolished in 1988. 1912 postmark. Number 2771.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:14121

Title: New Coliseum, Clinton, Iowa
Description: The Coliseum was built as an armory in 1914. Construction costs were $110,000. It served as the city's convention center and housed the Modernistic Ball Room. The building was destroyed by fire on December 24, 1958. 1925 postmark. Number 46035. Copyright 1914 by John Morrell & Son.
Date Created: 1925
PID: grinnell:14560