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Title: Courthouse, Creston, Iowa, Union County Court House, Union County Courthouse
Description: Looking northwest at the third courthouse built in Union County. After several attempts to move the county seat from Afton to Creston, the courthouse was located in Creston and completed in 1890 at a cost of $22,000. It was replaced by the current courthouse, built in 1952, at 300 North Pine Street, Creston, Union County, Iowa. Number 70898.
Date Created: 1916
PID: grinnell:14685

Title: Polk County Court House, Des Moines, Iowa, Polk County Courthouse
Description: Looking west from Court Avenue at the Polk County Courthouse. The building was designed and built by Proudfoot and Bird in 1906 in the Beaux Arts style for a cost of $750,000 and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It is located at 500 Mulberry Street, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. 1910 postmark. Number 569.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:15561

Title: Polk County Court House, Des Moines, Iowa, Polk County Courthouse
Description: Looking west from Court Avenue at the Polk County Courthouse. The building was designed and built by Proudfoot and Bird in 1906 in the Beaux Arts style for a cost of $750,000 and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It is located at 500 Mulberry Street, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. 1922 postmark. Number R-75833.
Date Created: 1922
PID: grinnell:14681

Title: Post office, Creston, Iowa, Creston Post Office
Description: Looking northeast at a Georgian Revival, Beaux Arts building, designed by James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury, built in 1901. It housed the post office on the main floor and a federal courtroom on the second floor. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The post office has subsequently been relocated to a more modern building, and this building has been converted into commercial space located at 281 North Maple Street, Creston, Union County, Iowa. Number B415.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:16969

Title: State Capitol Building, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: Looking east at the Iowa State Capitol building with the Pioneers of the Territory monument (1892) designed and completed by Karl Gerhardt for a cost of $4,500 in the foreground. The building was completed in 1886 at a cost of $3,296,256, and, and at the time, was the only five-domed capitol in the country. The dome of the capitol is gilded with tissue-paper thin sheets of pure 23-karat gold, with a protective layer sealing the gold from the weather, and the top of its finial peak is 275 feet (84 m) above the ground. From its opening during 1884 until 1924, it was the tallest building in Des Moines, and likely the entire state. It is located at 1007 East Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Number P4079. Series IA-21.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:14699