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Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Helen Esther Roberts, an 18-year-old first-year student from Strawberry Point, arrived at Coe in the fall of 1918 and died of…
Cresco, Iowa
The Cresco Commercial Club raised the money for this opera house in 1914, and it opened in 1915 with the musical High Jinks. Local engineer…
Scotch Grove, Iowa
Jones County ran a poor farm on this land from the mid-1800s, housing people who were poor, disabled or mentally ill in exchange for work…
Dubuque, Iowa
Designed by Chicago architect Willoughby J. Edbrooke and opened in 1890, the Grand Opera House is the last surviving opera house in…
Marion, Iowa
This Victorian Italianate brick house in Marion was built around 1860 by Charles Myers. Earl Granger bought it in 1876 and his family lived…
Council Bluffs, Iowa
Chicago architect W. W. Boyington designed this Second Empire mansion, built in 1869 for Grenville M. Dodge (1831–1916), a Union Army…
Manilla, Iowa
H. J. Kopak built this two-story Italianate hotel in 1897, a block from the Milwaukee Road depot, to serve railroad passengers and the…
Malvern, Iowa
This three-story building was built in the 1870s as a railroad hotel for travelers passing through Malvern. By the mid-twentieth century it…
Bentonsport, Iowa
Mormon craftsmen from Nauvoo, Illinois, built this riverside hotel in 1846 as the Ashland House, to serve steamboat travelers on the Des…
Council Bluffs, Iowa
The Pottawattamie County Jail opened in 1885 as a "squirrel cage" rotary jail: three stacked levels of wedge-shaped cells built around a…
Indianola, Iowa
College Hall, originally the Old Chapel, is the oldest building on Simpson's campus. On May 6, 1935, Mildred "Millie" Hedges, a 22-year-old…
Villisca, Iowa
Visitors and investigators at the Villisca Axe Murder House describe footsteps in empty rooms, voices, whispers, doors and objects that…