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This is a list of motels.A motel is lodging designed for motorists, and usually has a parking area for motor vehicles. Entering dictionaries after World War II, the word motel, coined in 1925 as a portmanteau of motor and hotel or motorists' hotel, referred initially to a type of hotel consisting of a single building of connected rooms whose doors faced a parking lot and, in some circumstances ...
Iowa is located along the eastern edge of Calcasieu Parish at (30.237433, -93.014191 The eastern border of the town is the Jefferson Davis Parish line.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town of Iowa has a total area of 3.17 square miles (8.22 km 2), of which 3.15 square miles (8.15 km 2) is land and 0.03 square miles (0.07 km 2), or 0.80%, is water.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Webster County, Iowa, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
The Iowana Hotel, now known simply as The Iowana, is a historic building located in Creston, Iowa, United States. Because Creston was on the mainline of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad , and it was a divisional headquarters, it received a steady flow of visitors.
The Iowan's Hotel, now known as the Railroad Inn, is a historic building located in Essex, Iowa, United States. The town of Essex was established by the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad. [2] It was platted in 1870 as a station along the line. The depot opened in 1871 and the Lindel Hotel was completed in 1878.
The Elks-Rogers Hotel, also known as Park Hotel of Clear Lake, was a resort hotel in Clear Lake, Iowa built in 1901. It was "a classic piece of late Victorian architecture often found in the trans-Mississippi West." It had brick walls (made of soft brick of the area), fan windows, and a large porch with Doric columns. [2]
Bedford House/Garland Hotel (1857, 1877) is a contributing property. The downtown area originally developed at the intersection of Court and Main Streets, oriented towards the Taylor County Courthouse. After the railroad arrived it started to develop along Main Street, which slopes gradually to the east where the railroad was located.
The Sexton Hotel, also known as Hotel Stuart, is a historical building located in Stuart, Iowa, United States. The building is a two-story, L-shaped, brick and brick veneer structure that was built in two parts. The oldest section was a frame building built by John Sexton in 1893 and housed a restaurant.