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Title: Ames Block
Description: Photograph of the Ames Block behind 800 4th Avenue. Three storefronts are visible, one being the Oxford Cafe. A fire destroyed the building in the summer of 1941 The Gifford & Manly Building, built in 1914, served as the Elks building. The photograph was taken sometime after the removal of the 3rd floor of the Preston Opera House on the west side of Main Street. Next to the Opera House is the building which now houses the Poweshiek Abstract Company at 833 Main Street.
PID: grinnell:3306

Title: Broad Street and 4th
Description: Photograph of the block of buildings on the SE corner of Merchant's National Bank, south-north, on Broad Street. 1. Gifford&Manly (just north of bank). Built 1891. 2. Child Building (photographer). Built 1883-1884. 3. Stewart Block. Built 1877. 4. C.R. Morse building. Built 1891. 5. Coutts Building, built 1893. See item 1--an exclusive photo of the building. Now the Back Alley Deli & Varsity Newstand.6. Miles Bros/W.H. Barker/Clark/Coutts/Beyer building, built to house the Grange Store (3rd site of Grange Store). Second floor was the K of P (Knights of Pythias) fraternal order.
PID: grinnell:3312