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Des Moines Saddlery Company Building: June 27, 1985 : 307-311 Court Ave. Downtown: Built in 1881. 44: Des Moines Western Railway Freight House: Des Moines Western Railway Freight House: July 10, 2008 : 625 E. Court Ave.
The Des Moines City Hall is a government building in Des Moines, Iowa, built in 1909 and 1910. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 10, 1977 as the Municipal Building , and became a contributing property in the Civic Center Historic District in 1988. [ 1 ]
The Middlesex Plat Historic District is located in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. It was an upper-middle-class neighborhood of two-story square houses and bungalows that were built from 1910 to 1923. The district has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2000.
The California-based Scholarship Prep has applied to open a charter elementary and middle school in Des Moines for the 2025-26 school year. The group plans to use the 2024-25 school year for ...
The Register and Tribune Building is a historic commercial building at 715 Locust Street in Des Moines, Iowa.Built in 1918, it served as home to The Des Moines Register, one of Iowa's leading newspapers, until about 2000, when the presses were moved to another building, and 2013, when the Register 's owner, the Gannett Corporation, moved out in 2013.
Sherman Hill took its name in the early 1970s, borrowed from the name of Hoyt Sherman Place, which is located in the southeast part of the neighborhood. In the early 1870s, Des Moines banker Hoyt Sherman built his brick "palazzo" on a hill overlooking the city center. He was followed by local developers such as Talmadge Brown, James Savery and ...
The road was renamed Beaver Avenue in 1903 and was later improved in 1917 with brick paving. The entire northwest section of Des Moines was commonly known as "Urbandale" until 1917, when the name was formally adopted by an adjacent suburban village. Soon afterwards, city residents from the area met and selected "Beaverdale" as the name to ...
In 2004, the Iowa DNR discovered a hazardous waste site near Des Moines Water Works Park and referred the matter to the United States Environmental Protection Agency which took over the site for federal assistance in 2020 and, in June 2023, was recommending that the Lot 46 Valley Gardens TCE Superfund Site be placed on the National Priorities ...