Bowers and McDonald Office Building

Bowers and McDonald Office Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	816 Commercial St. Grinnell, Iowa
Coordinates	41°44′32″N92°43′29″W / 41.74222°N 92.72472°W / 41.74222; -92.72472
Area	less than one acre
Built	1896
Built by	R.G. Coutts
Architectural style	Romanesque Revival
MPS	Grinnell MPS
NRHP reference No.	90001849 [1]
Added to NRHP	April 9, 1991

The Bowers and McDonald Office Building is a historic structure located in Grinnell, Iowa, United States. J.B. Bowers and M.W. McDonald had the building built as a speculative real-estate venture.

Located in the city's central business district, it was one of the buildings constructed after a fire leveled a portion of the district in 1889.

Its construction is attributed to R.G. Coutts, a native of Scotland who settled in Grinnell in 1873. He was a stone cutter, mason, building contractor, and real-estate developer. ^[2]

The two-story, brick structure has a main facade of stone veneer, and features Richardsonian Romanesque styling. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. ^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
2. W.C. Page. "Bowers and McDonald Office Building". National Park Service . Retrieved April 16, 2016.