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The Chautauqua Park Historic District is located on the north side of Des Moines, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1990. [ 1 ] It is part of the Suburban Development in Des Moines Between the World Wars, 1918--1941 MPS .
Sherman Hill is a 15 block area northwest of downtown Des Moines. It is mostly a residential area with two clusters of commercial buildings, one on the northwest corner and another along its southern border. [2] The streets follow a grid pattern that is oriented north to south. The elevation of the district varies as do the sizes of the lots.
Fort Des Moines Museum and Education Center: Des Moines: Polk: Central: Military: Honors the U.S. Army's first officer candidate class for African American men in 1917, and the establishment of the first Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1942 Fort Museum: Fort Dodge: Webster: Central: Open air: website, frontier trading post, military and 19th ...
Interstate 235 (I-235) cuts through the city, and I-35 and I-80 both pass through the Des Moines metropolitan area, as well as the city of Des Moines. On the northern side of the city of Des Moines and passing through the cities of Altoona, Clive, Johnston, Urbandale and West Des Moines, I-35 and I-80 converge into a long concurrency while I ...
It was founded in 1857 in Iowa City, where it was first affiliated with the University of Iowa. As the organization grew in size and collections, it became a separate state agency headquartered near the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines. [2] [3] Since March of 2024, the Administrator of the State Historical Society of Iowa has been Valerie Van Kooten. [4]
The city of West Des Moines bought more than 19 acres of property for the arboretum in June 2023 for more than $2 million. Schoen and Dan Houston, fellow project co-leader and private donor ...
Des Moines Performing Arts says it is a prospective buyer of the Argonne Armory, a prime piece of city-owned real estate on the edge of East Village. Des Moines Performing Arts looks to buy city ...
In the early 2000s, the west end of downtown Des Moines was in a dilapidated state, with auto repair shops, seedy businesses, and worn out and vacant buildings. The city decided to remediate the situation and created Western Gateway park from 10th to 15th street, demolishing derelict buildings and moving a historic apartment complex to another ...