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Interior Décor

Décor – curtains, wall covering, favorite plants and plant stands, small pillow, vases. Date @1915

Fruit in a Dish

Fine domestic scene — fruit and dish and table — wallcovering

House Details

Decorative porch posts (supports) dentils, and fishscale shingles (unknown address) Date @1975

Grain Threshing

Early tractor and belt driven threshing machine — 1920s trucks but horses still primary power. … Read more …

House Details

Detail — large square porch posts with no railing; see egg and dart trim under … Read more …

Historic Kepler Home

Home of Capt Charles Kepler (Civil War hero, Attorney, Mayor, State Legislator 2nd Street So … Read more …

House Details

First and second floor porches — details, overhang (appropriate paint colors) Date @1976

Electric Generator

Electric generator/motor. Could be the one the city of Mt Vernon bought and used to … Read more …

House Details

Gable end; fish scale and clapboard siding; ? Date @1980

House Detail

Gable with fishscale and paladin windows 209 Second Avenue NW Date @1980

Gardening

Gardening couple – Note: tall picket fence.

Tourist Home

For many years known as the Mount Vernon Hotel or Tourist Home (on Lincoln Highway; … Read more …

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Mount Vernon Historic Preservation Commission

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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Mount Vernon Historic Preservation Commission

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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2 years ago

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