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Title: Cafe on Main Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking west Commercial Street. "At this time these buildings are slated to be torn down."--photo verso. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places under Grinnell Historic Commercial District. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1975
PID: grinnell:13987

Title: Grinnell Federal Savings and Loan Association, First Federal Savings Bank, First Federal Bank, Grinnell Federal Savings & Loan Association, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest. The Grinnell Federal Savings & Loan building was constructed in 1965.
Date Created: 1975
PID: grinnell:13364

Title: Merchants National Bank, Poweshiek County National Bank, Brenton Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, Poweshiek County Bank, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking north. Built in 1914 by Louis H. Sullivan, "father of the American skyscraper", the Merchant's National Bank was one of a number of "jewel box" banks built in small midwestern communities. Number C23158.
Date Created: 1975
PID: grinnell:13397

Title: Schnitzelbank, Amana, Iowa
Description: Schnitzelbank--a bench with whittling knives. Also a German folk tune where the singers pick up one new item in each verse. The Amana Colonies, founded by German-speaking people in 1854, were communal until 1932. The seven villages today are a Registered National Historic Landmark.--t.p. verso. Located at 759 48th Avenue, Amana, Iowa County, Iowa. Number 20294-D.
Date Created: 1975
PID: grinnell:13951