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The Laura Musser McColm Historic District, also known as the Muscatine Art Center, is a nationally recognized historic district located in Muscatine, Iowa, United States.. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2
Welch Apartments is an historic building located in downtown Muscatine, Iowa, United States. The Scott House hotel existed on this property prior to this building, which was constructed about 1900. [2] The Italianate-style building contain 26 units with different floor plans. The main floor contains commercial space.
Location of Muscatine County in Iowa. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Muscatine County, Iowa. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Muscatine County, Iowa, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
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 Laurel Building (1916–17), 101 E. 2nd Street, a six-story combination department store and office building, also designed by Paul V. Hyland, which was for a long time the "other" tall building in downtown Muscatine. [2] Laurel Building. Muscatine City Hall (1914), a building for city offices designed by Detroit architect Joseph E. Mills ...
The building was built of native oak beams. It utilizes mortise and tenon joints that are connected with wooden pegs. The mill itself was powered by a 20-horsepower water turbine from approximately 1848 to 1878, and after 1878, a 40 to 60-horsepower steam engine back-up when the water level was low.
The lock is 110 feet (33.5 m) wide by 600 feet (182.9 m) long with a maximum lift of 9 feet (2.7m) [2] In 2004, the facility was listed in the National Register of Historic Places as Lock and Dam No. 16 Historic District, #04000176 covering 1,024 acres (4.1 km 2), 1 building, 5 structures, and 2 objects.
Successful in business he had this double house built for his family between 1866 and 1869. Over his years in Muscatine, he was a lumber merchant, saloon operator, cultivator manufacturing and merchandising groceries, provisions, and the like. The house is one of the few early structures that remain in the oldest residential section of town. [2]