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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: 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: 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

Title: Central Park, City Park, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest at Central Park from Third Avenue at Broad Street and park.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13900

Title: York Lumber, Clark Lumber Company, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Truck pulling wagon full of lumber in from of warehouse. Sign says "We use lumber from the Clark Lumber Co." Verso says: "The 600 block of Broad, I remember this as York Lumber, J.B. Grinnell's big home was to the right after being moved from its location East of Central Park. All this was cleared for Mayflower homes in the 1980s". Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13589