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Title: 817 Seventh Avenue, Man on a "carnivalesque" cycling structure in the backyard of R. C. Ross residence
Description: Photograph of a "carnivalesque" in the backyard of the Ross residence at 817 Seventh Avenue, taken in the early 1900s. Bicyclists rode around the inner perimeter of the structure, made of wooden slats held erect by guide wires on a concrete slab.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:3285

Title: 817 Seventh Avenue, 817 7th Avenue
Description: View of 817 Seventh Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1976. 817 is the red tinted concrete block and stucco home. The yellow house is 815 Seventh Avenue. Ben and Gladys Tarleton lived at 815 Seventh Avenue. Their daughter, Dorothy who married Philip Palmer, moved to 817 Seventh Avenue from a home on East Street in about 1950 so that they could be near the Tarletons. In 1953, Philip and Dorothy Palmer and their children moved to Colorado.
Date Created: 1976
PID: grinnell:12059

Title: 818 Elm Street
Description: 818 Elm Street in Grinnell, Iowa. This was the home of Mabel Stemsrud, and it was built by her son, Bert Stemsrud in 1948. The home was ordered from a catalog. Bert drove his tractor and a hay wagon into Grinnell from his Ewart farm and unloaded the house materials from a railway car. Bert and his brothers would bring loads of cobs from corn shelling to Mabel. She used those in her kitchen Home Comfort stove for cooking. She also had a cob fired hot water heater in the basement. Mabel kept a large garden and many fruit trees.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:20681

Title: 818 High Street
Description: 818 High Street in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Martzahn City Planning Slides, p.11, slide 18.
Date Created: 2001
PID: grinnell:30232

Title: 819 9th Avenue, 819 Ninth Avenue
Description: 819 9th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Martzahn City Planning Slides, p.11, slide 3.
Date Created: 2001
PID: grinnell:30218

Title: 827 Broad Street, Johnson & Wadsworth Drug Store
Description: Photograph of the Johnson & Wadsworth Drug Store and other Broad Street businesses before the 1889 fire. A tailor shop was located at 825 Broad, and a two-story confectionery at 831 Broad. A delivery wagon for Preston & Proctor Groceries is visible at far right.
Date Created: 1880
PID: grinnell:3297

Title: 831 Main Street, Company K by the Preston Opera House, Main Street
Description: Photograph of Company K in front of the Preston Opera House at 831 Main Street. Built in 1878, the brick building was modified many times and eventually became a two-story structure.
Date Created: 1898
PID: grinnell:3318

Title: 834 Park Street, George M. Christian residence
Description: Photograph of the house at 834 Park Street, built in 1883 and owned by George M. Christian. It later served as the Cafe Phoenix and Relish restaurant.
Date Created: 1987
PID: grinnell:3283

Title: 8th Avenue Looking East from Spencer, Eighth Avenue Looking East from Spencer
Description: The view looking east along 8th Avenue from Spencer Street in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Martzahn City Planning Slides, p.15, slide 13.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:30279