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2022 Fall Newsletter

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Mount Vernon Historic Preservation Commission Historic District News – Fall 2022 Mount Vernon’s Historic Preservation … Read more …

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2022 Spring Newsletter

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Mount Vernon Historic Preservation Commission Historic District News – Spring 2022 Operation Democracy: Mount Vernon, … Read more …

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2021 Fall Newsletter

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Mount Vernon Historic Preservation Commission Historic District News – Fall 2021 Mount Vernon’s Historic Preservation … Read more …

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Tommy Rhomberg

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Tommy Rhomberg has always been an inventor. So, it was no surprise that he turned … Read more …

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos, Newsletters & Articles Tags Derecho, Mount Vernon

The Virgil Crofter Collection

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Prepared and donated by Carolyn Wellso, 2004 Adapted for web in 2021 Virgil Crofter (1921-2012) … Read more …

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos, Newsletters & Articles Tags Bohemian Life, Cedar River, Crofter Collection, Ivanhoe

Mount Vernon High School

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Among the historic resources found in Mount Vernon is the 1927 High School Building.  This … Read more …

Categories Building Genealogies, Mount Vernon's Historic Photos, Newsletters & Articles Tags Mount Vernon High School, Ward Elementary School

Our Architectural Heritage in Historical Context

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Mount Vernon has historic structures that date from the 1840s to the present. The principle … Read more …

Categories Newsletters & Articles Tags Design Guidelines Booklet

Porches

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Changing Architecture: From the Front Porch to the Back Patio Adapted for web from Iowa … Read more …

Categories Newsletters & Articles Tags Porches

Operation Democracy: Mount Vernon, Iowa to Diekirch, Luxembourg

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On March 12, 2020, Carine Welter, Director of the Museum of Histories Diekirch, Luxembourg, contacted … Read more …

Categories Newsletters & Articles Tags Diekirch Luxembourg, Mount Vernon, Operation Democracy

MVHPC Newsletter – May, 2020

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Cleaning Out

Please Keep Us in Mind!

Fewer demands and more time at home have motivated many of us to…
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Historic Windows – Vital to the Spirit of a Historic Building

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One of the most important architectural features on a historic building is its original windows. … Read more …

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MVHPC Newsletter – January, 2020

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Below is a PDF document version of the Mount Vernon Historic Preservation Commission’s newsletter for … Read more …

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2 years ago

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The MVHPC partnered with the Linn County Historic Preservation Commission and the Mount Vernon Lisbon Community Development Group on the placement of two new informational kiosks about the history of the Lincoln Hwy in Lisbon and Mount Vernon. There was a commemoration at the Kiosk in Lisbon on Oct. 6 with a poem created for the event by Poet Laureate Amanda Kibbie. The MV Kiosk is located in Prairie Park next to the Cornell football field. The MV kiosk faces one of the last remaining brick portions of the Lincoln Hwy and is near the 10th Avenue Overpass. The overpass was built in approximately 1910 as a part of the Lincoln Hwy. Credit to Steven Ciha of the LCHPC for images. ... See MoreSee Less

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UPDATE!!! Thanks to Jay and Arlie Willems, the circa 1910 glass negatives are now in the Mount Vernon Archives. We are grateful to Arlie and Jay for transporting the negatives and to Joe Burkart of Crestview Florida for donating them.Photo collectors in Crestview Florida have glass plate negatives of a photographer named Hodson who worked in and around Mount Vernon in 1910. The collectors have offered the negatives to the MVHPC. The plates are fragile and very heavy, so shipping them is not a good option. Is anyone planning to travel by car to Florida anytime in the next year and willing pick up these negatives in the panhandle of the state? If so, please send a message on this site to the site administrator. ... See MoreSee Less
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Mount Vernon Historic Preservation Commission updated their status.

2 years ago

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