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Cedar Rapids Milk Condensing Company: May 8, 2017 : 525 Valor Way, SW: Cedar Rapids: 25: Cedar Rapids Post Office and Public Building: Cedar Rapids Post Office and Public Building: November 10, 1982 : 305 2nd Ave., SE.
The Shrine of the Grotto of the Redemption is a religious shrine in West Bend, Iowa, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux City.A conglomeration of nine grottos depicting scenes in the life of Jesus, it contains a large collection of minerals and petrifications and is believed to be the largest grotto in the world.
Young Corn from the Grant Wood collection. The museum has significant collections from several prominent Iowa artists. The 63,000-square-foot (5,900 m 2) museum displays temporary exhibitions of contemporary art and hold the world's largest collection of works by Grant Wood, Marvin Cone, and Bertha Jaques, works by Mauricio Lasansky and the Riley Collection of ancient Roman portrait busts.
The location of present-day Cedar Rapids was in the territory of the Fox and Sac tribes at the time of European American settlement.. The first settler on the site of the future city was Osgood Shepherd, who built a log cabin (which he called a tavern) in 1837 or 1838 next to the Cedar River (then known as the Red Cedar) at what is now the corner of First Avenue and First Street Northeast.
The first lodge of the C.S.P.S. in Cedar Rapids was founded in 1879 and there were three by 1882. The building is a local adaptation of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. [2] The building was damaged in the 2008 flooding of Cedar Rapids, [4] but underwent a major renovation in 2011 that preserved its historic character.
His major work, entitled Roman Antiquities (Ancient Greek: Ῥωμαϊκὴ Ἀρχαιολογία, Rhōmaikē Archaiologia), frequently abbreviated Ant. Rom. (Latin: Antiquitates Romanae), narrates the history of Rome from the mythical period to the beginning of the First Punic War in twenty books, of which the first nine remain extant while ...
Universities and colleges in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (3 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Cedar Rapids, Iowa" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total.
The Paramount Theatre is a 1,693-seat [1] theater in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. In 2015 it was included as a contributing property in the Cedar Rapids Central Business District Commercial Historic District. [2] The theater is a restored example of a vaudeville/movie palace ...