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Title: Mears Cottage, [Grinnell College], Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northeast. Mears Cottage was constructed in 1888, costing $14,719. Originally served as a ladies dormitory. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 1912 postmark. Number 49.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:14529

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 Post Office, Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Post Office
Description: Looking southwest at the two-story limestone and granite post office building designed by architect James Knox Taylor and completed in 1910 at a cost of $488,016.67. It was the first federally-sponsored post office in Des Moines specifically designed for only that purpose. Post operations had previously been on the first floor of the "Old Federal Building" at Fifth and Court Avenue (built 1870, razed 1968) beginning in 1870. Postal operations moved from the Walnut Street building in 1971 to a much larger facility at Second and University Avenue. This building is used for county offices. It is located on East Walnut Street and listed in the National Register of Historic Places. 1912 postmark. Number 604.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:14679

Title: New depot, Newton, Iowa
Description: One-story brick depot built around 1910 by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. 1912 postmark.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:14316

Title: Old Mill, Cherokee, Iowa, Old White Mill
Description: People fishing at the Old White Mill. The three-story flour mill was established in 1871 and had a seven foot water-head that supplied power for the Old White Mill on the Little Sioux River northeast of Cherokee, Iowa. The historical flood of June 1891 destroyed the dam. Crippled by this loss, the old mill never regained its former prestige. 1912 postmark.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:14084

Title: Third Avenue, Central Park, Monroe Hotel, Park Street north from 3rd Avenue, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking north from Park Street with Central Park and Monroe Hotel in foreground. 1912 postmark. Number 61.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:13319

Title: Poweshiek County Court House, Montezuma, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest from East Main Street. The courthouse was completed in 1859 at a cost of $1,928.15 with an addition built in 1890 and major repairs done in 1933. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places. 1912 postmark.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:13674

Title: R.R. bridge by moonlight, Davenport, Iowa, Railroad bridge, Crescent Bridge
Description: Looking southwest at the Crescent Bridge (named simply because it forms a crescent) that carries a rail line across the Mississippi River between Davenport, Iowa and Rock Island, Illinois. It was designed by C.F. Loweth and built in 1900 by the Phoenix Bridge Company. It was owned by the Davenport, Rock Island and North Western Railway (DRI Line), a joint subsidiary of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad. 1912 postmark. Number A-17978.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:16197

Title: Railroad bridge, across the Des Moines River, Boone, Iowa, Centerville Bridge
Description: We believe this is not the Kate Shelley bridge as written on the card (search for Kate Shelley High Bridge), but the Centerville Bridge which can be seen from the Kate Shelley Bridge. Looking north at a Lost Pratt through bridge built in 1896 by George E. King Bridge Co. of Des Moines, Iowa, and the King Iron Bridge Co., of Cleveland, OH. It was replaced in 1922 by a new bridge downstream. The bridge is no longer standing. The postcard reads "Magazines and newspapers of all nations have published the story of Kate Shelly's heroism that dark and stormy night in July, when, a girl of only fourteen years, she crossed the old wooden structure, since replaced by the above steel bridge, on hands and knees, during the violent storm then raging, the river at the time being much higher than shown in this picture, nearly reaching the ties." --t.p. 1912 postmark. Copyright 1903.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:13431

Title: Residence of Governor Larrabee, Clermont, Iowa, Larrabee, William, U.S. Governor, Iowa, Montauk
Description: Looking northwest at Montauk, the home of Iowa's 12th governor, William Larrabee. He was the first governor to serve in the new capital building in Des Moines. The house is located at 26223 Harding Road, Clermont, Fayette County, Iowa, is 40' by 60' of red brick with dolomite lintels, and is set on a 46 acre tract of land overlooking the Turkey River Valley. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. 1912 postmark. Number 9.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:13688