Commercial Historic District Archives - Page 16 of 19 - Mount Vernon Historic Preservation Commission

Main Street

Photograph of Upper (west) main street. NOTE: Large doors on City Hall were for Fire … Read more …

City Hall

Photograph of city hall from 1909. Replaced in 1914 at new location. Date @1909

Moving the Visitors Center

Placing the trailer under the lifted building Date @1990

Possibly a Political Rally

Political rally? Courtesy of Cornell College Archives (Mount Vernon, Iowa) Date @1950

Downtown

Pressed tin facade on this building and the one story building to the east (right). … Read more …

Women Walking Downtown

This image has been printed backwards. These two women can be seen walking in front … Read more …

Chicago Symphony Members Downtown

Reported to be members of the Chicago Symphony during May Music Festival; Note: brick streets … Read more …

Parade

RETURN for details – newspapers etc parade related to www @1918? Date @ 1918?

Richard Wolfe

R.B. Wolfe (attorney) practiced law at this location for about 50 years. Previously his father … Read more …

Skillet Cafe

Returned to original windows style. Historic corner of Highway 101 First Street NW Date 2010

High School

See Mt Vernon Centennial Book for story of building. Becomes Middle School, then sold to … Read more …

Stearn’s Garage

Stearn’s Garage on 100 block East Main street (north side). Date @1926

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2 years ago

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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2 years ago

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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