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Clare is a city in Webster County, Iowa, United States. The population was 136 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] Clare was settled circa 1882 by immigrants from Clare County, Ireland .
The tallest structure is the three-story Bard Hotel (207 N. Cody Road). The old Le Claire city hall at 201-203 N. Cody has a concave hipped roof, pedimented window hoods, and a decorative cornice. The former Presbyterian Church, located at 322 N. Cody Road, is the only historic church building in the district.
Further construction occurred in the 1930s along West Fifth Street, following the construction of the Clare City Hall Building. The downtown as a whole prospered until the 1960s, when the freeway bypassed the city. However, despite economic struggles, the downtown area has retained a substantial amount of business activity. [2]
Ss. Peter and Paul Church, Sherrill, Iowa. Founded in 1852, Ss. Peter and Paul Parish in Sherrill, Iowa, is now part of the St. John Baptist de La Salle Pastorate. [46] Before the parish was founded, its Catholics had to travel 15 miles by ox-team to Dubuque to attend mass.
St. Patrick's is the second parish founded in Iowa City after St. Mary's, which was established in 1841. The Rev. M. V. Rice celebrated the first mass for St. Patrick's parish in the former Trinity Episcopal Church on March 23, 1873. The building was on Dubuque Street, near Burlington, and had been remodeled for the parish's use.
The first Mass in what is now Iowa City was celebrated by a frontier missionary, the Rev. Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli, OP, on December 20, 1840. It was attended by 28 people in a building that doubled as a private home and a hotel owned by Fred Haberstroh. The University of Iowa’s School of Business is currently on that location. [2]
The first Mass in the church was celebrated on Palm Sunday in 1877. At the time the parish was part of the Diocese of Dubuque. It transferred to the Diocese of Davenport when it was established five years later. A rectory was built in the 1880s to the north of the church.
Clare Street (disambiguation), streets of this name; Clare GAA, responsible for Gaelic games in County Clare; Earl of Clare, an extinct title created three times, once each in the peerages of England, Great Britain, and Ireland; Viscount Clare, an extinct title in the Peerage of Ireland, created twice; Cyclone Clare, which struck Western ...