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The J.H.C. Petersen's Sons Wholesale Building was a historic building located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1910 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1] 1910 Sanborn Map shows the Wholesale Building connected to the original store across the alley.
The Romanesque Revival John Blaul and Sons Wholesale Grocery building is the only building that wasn't built in a utilitarian form with only general stylistic influences. [2] All of the buildings are constructed in brick. The area largely housed manufacturing and wholesale businesses into the 1970s and 1980s.
The Harper and McIntire Company Warehouse, also known as Smulekoff's Warehouse, is a historic building located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. Harper and Mcintire was a wholesale hardware business that was established in Ottumwa, Iowa in 1856. A branch warehouse in Cedar Rapids was begun in 1921.
The Simmons Hardware Company Warehouse, also known as the Battery Building, [2] is a historic warehouse located in Sioux City, Iowa that is on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] The six-story building covered a whole block and its construction was supervised by Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr., the time and motion study pioneer.
After settling in Scott County, Iowa he worked in farming and at a match-factory. He and his three sons Max, Henry, and William opened a dry goods store in 1872. By 1875 they were handling both wholesale and retail lines of merchandise from Chicago. [5] Branch stores were opened in Clinton, Iowa and Geneseo, Illinois in the 1880s.
The Grocers Wholesale Company Building, also known as the Sears and Roebuck Farm Store, is a historic building located in Des Moines, Iowa, United States.Completed in 1916, this was the first of four warehouses built and owned by Iowa's only and most successful statewide cooperative grocery warehouse. [2]
The building's construction and materials are geared to net zero carbon emissions: low-carbon concrete and mass timber — a material made by pressing smaller planks of wood together, forming one ...
Davenport architects Clausen & Kruse designed the building for industrial use in 1919. The building originally produced typesetting machines. [42] In 1954 The Salvation Army acquired the building, and used it for a variety of purposes, including an Adult Rehabilitation Center, which relocated in 2004. The building is currently used for apartments.