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Mulherin Home

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407 First Avenue South. Mulherin Home. Photo 2017 Although the owner believes the date is … Read more …

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags House, Mount Vernon, Mulherin

Mount Vernon House

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Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Glass Negative, Home Life, House, Mount Vernon, When is this?, Where is this?

Mount Vernon Home

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Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Glass Negative, Home Life, House, Mount Vernon, When is this?, Where is this?

Mount Vernon Home

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Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Glass Negative, Home Life, House, Mount Vernon, When is this?, Where is this?

Mount Vernon House

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Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Glass Negative, Home Life, House, Mount Vernon, When is this?, Where is this?

Mount Vernon Home

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Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Glass Negative, Home Life, House, Mount Vernon, When is this?, Where is this?

Bauman House

photo of Bauman House-106

106 1st Ave S. Historic Home of August Bauman (not in a historic district) Date … Read more …

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Bauman House, Glass Negative, Home Life, House, Mount Vernon

Bauman House

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106 1st Ave S.W. Date @1920

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Bauman House, Glass Negative, Home Life, House, Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon Home

photo of Mount Vernon Home-117

117 3rd Ave NW Owner (2011) – Don Chamberlain and Barbara Lau. Photo @ 1900.

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Glass Negative, Home Life, House, Mount Vernon

Kepler House

photo of Kepler House

After restoration of large front porch and railings etc. Historic paint colors. Kepler donated land … Read more …

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Home Life, House, Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon Home

photo of Mount Vernon Home-1915

A home on a corner – dirt street and board sidewalk. Two people stand by … Read more …

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Fashion, Glass Negative, Home Life, House, Men, Mount Vernon, Pastimes, Where is this?, Who am I?

Mount Vernon House

photo of Mount Vernon House-1995

Details; high queen anne style note attic window and upper shingles, unusual lap siding; carpenters … Read more …

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Home Life, House, Mount Vernon
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2 years ago

Mount Vernon Historic Preservation Commission
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

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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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