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Office - Tallest building outside of Des Moines 10: Iowa State Capitol: 275 (84) 4: 1884: ... Sioux City Office 30 US Bank Building 166 (50) 12 1926 Cedar Rapids
AT&T Building (former Northwestern Bell Telephone Company), Des Moines, 1928; Butler House, Des Moines, 1936; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, 1948; Des Moines Building, Des Moines, 1930; Des Moines Fire Department Headquarters, Des Moines, 1937; Hotel Kirkwood, Des Moines, 1930; Iowa-Des Moines National Bank Building, Des Moines, 1932
The dome is surmounted by a lookout lantern that may be reached by long and winding stairs, and it terminates in a finial that is 275 ft (84 m) above the ground floor. [6] From its opening during 1884 until 1924, it was the tallest building in Des Moines, and likely the entire state. [8] The rotunda beneath the dome is 80 ft (24 m) in diameter. [5]
May 30, 1974 (Des Moines: Polk: Training site for black officers in World War I. 8: George M. Verity: George M. Verity (towboat): December 20, 1989 (Keokuk: Lee: One of three surviving steam-powered towboats in the United States, this ship pioneered on upper Mississippi in a certain way, leading to large private industry.
The eastern two-thirds of the block was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 as the Studio Building. The western one-third was added to the National Register in 2008, and its name was changed at that time. [2] In 2019 the entire building was included as a contributing property in the East Des Moines Commercial Historic ...
The Observatory Building, also known as the Van Ginkel Building, [2] was a skyscraper located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. Standing at 197 ft tall (60 m) and heralded as "the tallest office building between Chicago and San Francisco" when opened on April 1, 1896, it was also the first skyscraper in Iowa. [ 1 ]
Building Image Location First built Use Notes Louis Arriandeaux Log House: Dubuque, Iowa: ca. 1827 Residence Oldest house in Iowa. [1] Located on the grounds of the Mathias Ham House: Stringtown House: Davis County, Iowa: 1832 Residence Oldest house in Davis County Claim House: Davenport, Iowa: ca. 1832-1833 Residence Oldest building in Davenport
Sioux City was founded in the 1850s by Dr. John Cook as a trading post and docking point for steamships. As the river town grew, the population required an increasing number of federal services, and the city was selected as the location of a new post office, federal building, and courthouse to replace an existing federal building (currently used as City Hall).