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The McKee Button Company is a historic building in Muscatine, Iowa, United States. The city was known as the Pearl Button Capital of the World because of the numerous firms that produced the buttons here through the 1960s. [2] The Peerless Button Company was established by James McKee and his brother-in-law William Bliven in 1895.
The Laurel Building (1916–17), 101 E. 2nd Street, a six-story combination department store and office building, also designed by Paul V. Hyland, which was for a long time the "other" tall building in downtown Muscatine. [2] Laurel Building. Muscatine City Hall (1914), a building for city offices designed by Detroit architect Joseph E. Mills ...
Location of Muscatine County in Iowa. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Muscatine County, Iowa. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Muscatine County, Iowa, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
Contributing properties include the 1908 residence, the carriage house from the 1920s, and the Japanese garden that was installed in 1929. [2] The house was built for Laura Musser and her husband Edwin McColm by Laura's father Peter. It was designed by Muscatine architect Henry W. Zeidler. It contains 12 rooms that flank large corridors on both ...
Welch Apartments is an historic building located in downtown Muscatine, Iowa, United States. The Scott House hotel existed on this property prior to this building, which was constructed about 1900. [2] The Italianate-style building contain 26 units with different floor plans. The main floor contains commercial space.
Muscatine (/ ˌ m ʌ s k ə ˈ t i n / MUSS-kə-TEEN [4]) is a city in and the county seat of Muscatine County, Iowa, United States.The population was 23,797 at the time of the 2020 census, [5] an increase from 22,697 in 2000.
The building was built of native oak beams. It utilizes mortise and tenon joints that are connected with wooden pegs. The mill itself was powered by a 20-horsepower water turbine from approximately 1848 to 1878, and after 1878, a 40 to 60-horsepower steam engine back-up when the water level was low.
Four Fuller brothers, German immigrants, were already living in Muscatine in 1837. [2] One of them, Henry, was a brick maker. He had six children and his sons Joseph and Anthony followed him in the brick making business. Joseph bought this lot in 1877 and had the house built the following year. He lived here until at least 1892.