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Location of Muscatine County in Iowa. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Muscatine County, Iowa. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Muscatine County, Iowa, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
The Hotel Muscatine (1914–15), 101 W. Mississippi Drive, an expensive-in-its-time building, funded in part by a large number of citizens who bought its common stock. It is a seven-story building designed by architect Paul V. Hyland which was the tallest in Muscatine until the 1970s. [2]
The house was built for Laura Musser and her husband Edwin McColm by Laura's father Peter. It was designed by Muscatine architect Henry W. Zeidler. It contains 12 rooms that flank large corridors on both floors. After Edwin's death in 1933 Laura married William T. Atkins in 1938 and resided at his home in Kansas City, Missouri.
The McKee Button Company is a historic building in Muscatine, Iowa, United States. The city was known as the Pearl Button Capital of the World because of the numerous firms that produced the buttons here through the 1960s. [2] The Peerless Button Company was established by James McKee and his brother-in-law William Bliven in 1895.
The Alexander Clark House is a historic house located in Muscatine, Iowa, United States. The house is associated with Alexander Clark (1826–1891), an African American civil rights pioneer and US Minister to Liberia. Clark was a 19th-century abolitionist who made his home in Muscatine for most of his adult life.
The West Hill Historic District, in Muscatine, Iowa is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. At that time, it included 258 contributing buildings, two contributing objects, two contributing sites, and 67 non-contributing buildings. [2] The city of Muscatine was established as Bloomington in 1836.
Samuel N. McKibben was a native of Pennsylvania who moved to Iowa sometime before 1856. [2] Successful in business he had this double house built for his family between 1866 and 1869. Over his years in Muscatine, he was a lumber merchant, saloon operator, cultivator manufacturing and merchandising groceries, provisions, and the like.
The chapel was a given to the city of Muscatine by a local businessman and philanthropist, Peter Musser, as a gift in memory of his wife Tamson. [2] It was designed by Muscatine architect Henry W. Zeidler, who also designed Hotel Tipton in Tipton, Iowa, [3] and built by J.E. Howe who was also from Muscatine. The chapel was dedicated on May 12 ...