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The Downtown Commercial Historic District in Muscatine, Iowa is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. At that time, it included 93 contributing buildings, one other contributing object, and 18 non-contributing buildings. [2] The city of Muscatine was established as Bloomington in 1836.
Muscatine (/ ˌ m ʌ s k ə ˈ t i n / MUSS-kə-TEEN [4]) is a city in and the county seat of Muscatine County, Iowa, United States. The population was 23,797 at the time of the 2020 census, [5] an increase from 22,697 in 2000. [6] [7] It is located along the Mississippi River. The local business association states that the name Muscatine is ...
In 2002, the bank expanded beyond the Kalona market, building a new facility at 1st Avenue and Holiday Road in Coralville, Iowa. It concurrently changed its name to Freedom Security Bank to reflect its broadened scope of operations. In mid-2014, the bank was merged into Central State Bank, Muscatine, Iowa.
It hosts the annual Muscatine County Fair. The Muscatine County Historic Preservation Commission received a grant from the State of Iowa to study the fairgrounds in 2014. [ 2 ] Most of it was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places as the West Liberty Fairgrounds Historic District in 2015. [ 1 ]
The McKee Button Company is a historic building in Muscatine, Iowa, United States. The city was known as the Pearl Button Capital of the World because of the numerous firms that produced the buttons here through the 1960s. [2] The Peerless Button Company was established by James McKee and his brother-in-law William Bliven in 1895.
The house was built for Laura Musser and her husband Edwin McColm by Laura's father Peter. It was designed by Muscatine architect Henry W. Zeidler. It contains 12 rooms that flank large corridors on both floors. After Edwin's death in 1933 Laura married William T. Atkins in 1938 and resided at his home in Kansas City, Missouri.
The West Hill Historic District, in Muscatine, Iowa is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. At that time, it included 258 contributing buildings, two contributing objects, two contributing sites, and 67 non-contributing buildings. [2] The city of Muscatine was established as Bloomington in 1836.
The Alexander Clark House is a historic house located in Muscatine, Iowa, United States. The house is associated with Alexander Clark (1826–1891), an African American civil rights pioneer and US Minister to Liberia. Clark was a 19th-century abolitionist who made his home in Muscatine for most of his adult life.