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Mount Vernon Aerial

200 Block of West First St at least six months after the Feb 1975 fire … Read more …

Mount Vernon Aerial

Aerial photograph taken in a series of the city on May 12th 1975. return – … Read more …

Skyline Photo

A skyline view of either Cedar Rapids or Iowa City. Date @1915

Mount Vernon Aerial Shot

Image taken by Robert A. J. Photography. Photo taken on May 12, 1975. Right street … Read more …

Mount Vernon

Note church — appears to be the be the Methodist Brick Church replaced in 1900 … Read more …

Downtown Mount Vernon

Note: Before demolition of Altoona Hall (next to former water tower – also destroyed) and … Read more …

Cornell Aerial

Picture before construction of West Hall in 1976. Cornell campus from 5th Ave SW to … Read more …

Aerial Photograph of Mount Vernon

Aerial photograph in a series of the city taken on May 12th 1975. View from … Read more …

Aerial of Mount Vernon

Immediate house is Platner House (west First Street west (1892); house to the east is … Read more …

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Gone but not Forgotten!According to The Centennial History of Mount Vernon Iowa "A mass meeting of citizens in 1902 decided that a new hotel was a most compelling need. Traffic along the Lincoln Highway was increasing, and it was felt that Mount Vernon should bid for patronage of the traveling public. A stock company was at once organized ; shares selling at $100 each." The Altoona Hotel was built on the current site of the Mount Vernon Visitors Center and was opened to guests in 1903. As transportation to Cedar Rapids was more easily available, Altoona Hotel/Hall took on different functions, including as an Army barracks in WWI and housing for Cornell students later. Altoona Hall was demolished in 1985. ... See MoreSee Less

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The Dr Luther L. and Susette E. (Baker) Pease house was built in the 1850s and resides at 600 1st Ave SE, which was known as "The Military Road." The house was added to the National Register in 2020. This house was built of locally manufactured brick by Henry and/or Albright. The lower front windows actually open as doorways. The original house had distinctive U-shaped brick corbels throughout. Only one such corbel still exists. A less ornate addition was added in 1866. Dr Luther L Pease was born in Massachusetts and moved to Ft Dodge in 1854, where he practiced medicine and served prominently in the City and County. Susette E. Baker Pease was born in New York. They married in 1861. During a run for State Senate in 1859, Dr. Pease was accused by the Ft Dodge Democratic newspaper of being an "out-and-out Abolitionist who desires the colored race placed on an equality with the white man." Luther and Susette moved to Mt Vernon in Late 1869 where they purchased a lot in Saxby's 2nd Addition to Mount Vernon. Shortly after they arrived, Luther was appointed as postmaster, and later as head of a "full ticket of prohibition temperance" the town elected Luther to be the City's first mayor. ... See MoreSee Less

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