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Title: Campanile, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa
Description: Construction of the Campanile was completed in 1898 in memoriam of Margaret MacDonald Stanton, first dean of women, and the first bells were placed in the Campanile in 1899. Later in 1920, when Mrs. Stanton's husband, Edgar W. Stanton, 4-time acting president of Iowa State University, died, the university installed a musical instrument in the structure known as the Edgar W. and Margaret MacDonald Stanton Memorial Carillon.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:14450

Title: Cedar Valley Hospital, Charles City, Iowa, Charles City College, Comprehensive Systems, Inc., German-English College, German-English Normal School
Description: Looking south from Clark Street, the two story brick and stone building was built in 1892 and originally used as a college. The girls' dormitory was used as a hospital starting around 1914. The college was open until 1914 when it merged with Morningside College in Sioux City. In 1970 the building became the home of Comprehensive Systems, Inc. and is located at 1700 Clark Street, Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa. 1946 postmark. Number A373.
Date Created: 1946
PID: grinnell:13371

Title: Central Building, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, Beardshear Hall, Iowa State University
Description: Looking northwest at the Central Building. It was built in 1908 costing just over $400,000. In 1938, it was renamed Beardshear Hall after William M. Beardshear who was president of the college from 1891 to 1902. 1911 postmark. Number 5342. Located at 515 Morrill Road, Ames, Story County, Iowa.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:13492

Title: Central Building, [Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa], Beardshear Hall, Iowa State University
Description: Looking northwest at the Central Building. It was built in 1908 costing just over $400,000. In 1938, it was renamed Beardshear Hall after William M. Beardshear who was president of the college from 1891 to 1902. Verso contains 1915 summer session information. Located at 515 Morrill Road, Ames, Story County, Iowa.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:13493

Title: Central Hall, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, Central Building, Beardshear Hall, Iowa State University
Description: Looking south at the Central Building. It was built in 1906 costing just over $400,000. In 1938, it was renamed Beardshear Hall after William M. Beardshear who was president of the college from 1891 to 1902. Located at 515 Morrill Road, Ames, Story County, Iowa. 1923 postmark. Number 588.
Date Created: 1923
PID: grinnell:13347

Title: Clearfield High School, Clearfield, Iowa
Description: The first Clearfield High School was built in 1898 of pressed brick containing 11 rooms at a cost of $20,000. The building was destroyed by fire on March 24, 1940, on Easter Sunday and a new building was completed in 1941. That building was closed in 1986. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14038

Title: Clinton High School, Clinton, Iowa
Description: Three-story brick building built in 1922. Number 8164N. Series 8.
Date Created: 1933
PID: grinnell:13659

Title: Commons, Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa
Description: Looking west at a single-story brick building. The Commons at Parsons College was completed in 1965. Parsons College was named for Lewis B. Parsons Sr., a New York merchant who died in 1855 and left much of his estate as an endowment for an institution of higher learning in Iowa. The College was closed in 1973 and the campus was later purchased in 1974 by Maharishi International University.
PID: grinnell:15974

Title: Conrad High School, Conrad, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest at a three-story brick and stone building built in 1897 to originally accommodate the ninth and tenth grades. Two more classes were added in 1899. 1907 postmark.
Date Created: 1907
PID: grinnell:16987

Title: Crocker School, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest at two children in the foreground with the Crocker School in the background. The school was built in 1870 and demolished ca. 1962. It was named after Marcellus Monroe Crocker, a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and prominent lawyer in Des Moines, Iowa. 1909 postmark. Number 48.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:16929