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Title: BPOE, Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, B.P.O.E. Home, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking southeast from corner of Fourth Avenue and Main Street. The B.P.O.E. building was constructed in 1914. Lower floor was occupied by the Rexall Drug Store & flower shop of R.E. Bates, who later founded Bates Flowers on Broad Street. Number 46769.
Date Created: 1925
PID: grinnell:13424

Title: Spencer Transfer Storage Warehouse, Grinnell Produce Company, Bird's eye view, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northeast at downtown near industrial area. Number 2364.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:13478

Title: Brooklyn Hotel, Brooklyn Historical Hotel, Brooklyn, Iowa
Description: Hotel Brooklyn was built as a home in 1875. The original builder used the building as a saloon before it became a hotel known as the "Stephenson House". Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Number 861057. Dr. C. D. Busby purchased the hotel and made it not only his residence but also turned it into a hospital. He later closed the hospital, but continued to live there. It was later used again as a hotel and restaurant.
Date Created: 1990
PID: grinnell:13351

Title: St. Mary's Catholic Church, Catholic Church, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northeast on corner of Broad Street and Fifth Avenue with automobiles and U.S. route 32 sign. St. Mary's Catholic Church was built in the mid-twenties and dedicated in February 1927. Built in the Romanesque style. Cost was $59,000. Number 872.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:13643

Title: St. Mary's Catholic Church, Catholic Church, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking east on Broad Street. St. Mary's Catholic Church was built in the mid-twenties and dedicated in February 1927. Built in the Romanesque style. Cost was $59,000. Number 11460. Series 18.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:13642

Title: Vennard College (University Park, Iowa), John Fletcher College (University Park, Iowa), Kletzing College (University Park, Iowa), Central Holiness University, Oskaloosa, Iowa
Description: In 1951, the college, originally named Chicago Evangelistic Institute (CEI) and located in Chicago, Illiniois, was moved to University Park where it was renamed Vennard College. Central Holiness University was responsible for creating the town known as University Park. It was the dream of W.R. and Eloise Gilmore to create an institution for religious studies. With the help of the Iowa Holiness Association, which the Gilmore's belonged to, a 121 acre plot of land was discovered due east of Oskaloosa, which the Gilmore's purchased to build their dream. 75 of the 121 acres was to be used for the campus, with the other 46 acres to be sold off publicly to make up for what the property cost. Central Holiness University held its first classes in the Fall of 1906 with two-hundred students. Over the years, the University changed names, but has always maintained a religious purchase. Today, the higher education facility is known as Vennard College, which is a branch of the Chicago Evangelistic Institute. 1911 postmark. Number 1703.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:13344

Title: E.W. Clark Memorial fountain, Central Park, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking east from Broad Street at park with two women walking by the fountain. Number 572.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:13868

Title: Christian Church, Ferguson, Iowa
Description: One-story wooden building with view of front entrance. 1909 postmark.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:14421

Title: Circus band wagon, Circus day, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northeast on Broad Street with horse-drawn bandwagon in front of Stewart Library. Title supplied by cataloger. 1911 postmark.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:13881

Title: City Hall and fire station, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking south from Commercial Street at fire engine and firemen. Bell tower on building. The fire station served from 1889 to 1957, when a new station was built on Fourth Avenue.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:14522