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ObjectID	Object Description
2018.021.018 House	This home belonged to Henry Havelock Wilson of Mount Ayr, Iowa. The home was located in a community called Sheldon Heights. Frank Sheldon, a local banker, financier, and real estate broker, developed… Read More
2018.021.019 Store, Grocery	This photograph of the West End Market was taken around 1950. The West End Market was a grocery store located on the west side of Mount Ayr, Iowa. The store's grand opening was held on July 1, 1950.… Read More
2018.021.020 Pharmacy	This photo, taken in the early 1970s, shows the MacNeiley Drug Store located in Mount Ayr, Iowa. The building was built in 1895 and originally served as a jewelry store. In January 1906 Mount Ayr… Read More
2018.021.021 Hotel	The Foley Hotel in Kellerton, Iowa, was built in 1890. Kellerton resident T. W. Foley bought the hotel in December 1903 and owned it until 1914. While in operation, the hotel went by the names of… Read More
2018.021.022 Structure, Sports	This photograph shows that Ringgold County Speedway in 1967. The track opened in 1957 as the Mount Ayr Race Track. In 1967, the Mount Ayr Jalopy Club held a contest to rename the race track. The Club… Read More
2018.021.023 Store, Clothing	This photograph was taken from the northeast corner of the Mount Ayr town square around 1915. The business in the background is Freeland's Department Store, which was owned by Montgomery E. Freeland… Read More
2018.021.024 Store, Hardware	Mount Ayr resident Charles Horne bought the hardware business of Curtis R. Keating in March 1928. After Horne passed away in 1960, his son, Bill, moved the business to 108 W. Madison Street. This… Read More
2018.021.025 School	Mount Ayr's second brick high school was built in 1895. The school had no gymnasium, electricity or running water. A new school building, which had all of these things, opened in 1913. The older… Read More
2018.021.026 Motel	Mount Ayr's Clinton Motel was built in 1950 by Mabel McCullough. The motel was made out of dismantled Army barracks from Colorado. McCullough owned a trucking outfit and used her trucks to haul the… Read More
2018.021.027 Office, Post	This picture of Mount Ayr's second Post Office was taken around 1950. The building was dedicated on August 22, 1940. This building replaced Mount Ayr's first Post Office, which was established in… Read More
2018.021.028 Church	This picture of the United Presbyterian Church in Mount Ayr was taken in the 1970s. The church was built between 1902 and 1903 to replace an older building constructed in 1871. This building was used… Read More
2018.021.029 School	This photograph shows the brick high school located in the town of Delphos, Iowa. The town of Delphos was established in 1880 when the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad was extended from… Read More
2018.021.030 Print, Photographic	This photo shows the Lake of Three Fires located four miles north of Bedford, Iowa. Construction of this man-made lake began in 1935 and was completed in 1936; however, a drought prevented the lake… Read More
2018.021.031 School	This photograph shows the Tingley, Iowa high school as it appeared after 1901. The wood-framed school building was built in 1885, just three years after the Tingley Independent School District was… Read More
2018.021.032 Store	This photograph, taken around 1940, shows Currie's Jewelry Store and Piper's Grocery Store located on the north side the Mount Ayr, Iowa, town square. Currie's Jewelry Store belonged to Mount Ayr… Read More
2018.021.033 Creamery	This photograph shows the Mount Ayr creamery as it appeared around 1916. The Mount Ayr Creamery Cooperative Company built this building in the spring of 1914. By 1922, the building housed a produce… Read More
2018.021.034 Pharmacy	This photograph shows North Taylor Street in Mount Ayr, Iowa. The faded "Drug Store" sign on the side of the brick building was a remnant of J. W. Luce's drug store which operated in the 1920s and… Read More
2018.021.035 Store	This photograph shows brothers Randolph and Walter Beall of Mount Ayr, Iowa, standing in front of Randolph's insurance and real estate business. Between 1892 and 1893, the brothers each bought half… Read More
2018.021.036 Depot, Railroad	This photo, taken between 1905 and 1910, shows the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (Originally the Keokuk & Western) train depot at Diagonal, Iowa. Between 1887 and 1888, the Chicago, Kansas… Read More
2018.021.037 Church	The United Presbyterian Church of Tingley, Iowa was constructed in 1888 and dedicated in 1889. The church held its last services on December 27, 2009, although the building still stands today. This… Read More
2018.021.038 Church	The United Presbyterian Church of Diagonal, Iowa, was built and dedicated between 1889 and 1890. In 1915, the building received various upgrades and improvements. Due to decreasing attendance and… Read More
2018.021.039 Hotel	This photograph shows the German House Hotel located in Mount Ayr, Iowa. The hotel was sold many time between 1900 and 1920, but it kept the same name until 1925, when it was renamed the Lamb's Hotel… Read More
2018.021.040 House	The Willow Home boarding house was constructed in Mount Ayr, Iowa, in 1895. The house's owner, I. C. Tuttle, operated the boarding house for several decades. In the early 1940s, Raymond and Doris… Read More
2018.021.041 Store, Grocery	Hy-Vee came to Mount Ayr in 1947 when Hyde & Vredenburg Inc. opened Hyde's Food Store in town. In 1952, the corporation changed the names of all of its stores to Hy-Vee. Mount Ayr's Hy-Vee… Read More
2018.021.042 Depot, Railroad	This photograph shows the Delphos, Iowa, train depot. Delphos was established in 1880 when the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad was extended from Mount Ayr, Iowa, to Grant City, Missouri.… Read More