Hotel Hurst Garage

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Hotel Hurst Garage
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Location227 S. Main
Maquoketa, Iowa
Coordinates 42°04′00″N90°39′54″W / 42.06667°N 90.66500°W / 42.06667; -90.66500 Coordinates: 42°04′00″N90°39′54″W / 42.06667°N 90.66500°W / 42.06667; -90.66500
Arealess than one acre
Built1910
MPS Maquoketa MPS
NRHP reference No. 89002109 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 27, 1989

The Hotel Hurst Garage, also known as the Roberts Garage, was a historic building located in Maquoketa, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1910 by the owner of the Hotel Hurst next door. The owner of the Decker House Hotel had built a similar building two years earlier. The Hurst sold Buicks and the Decker sold Cadillacs. The cars could serve the needs of the hotels' guests, and it provided an automobile rental service as well as automobile sales. [2] It was a single-story brick structure that featured a tri-partite design. The central garage door was flanked by two display windows that showed off the new cars. The decorative elements were reserved to the top of the building, and included a broad brick paneled frieze, brick corbelled cornice, and a metal cornice. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [1] It has subsequently been torn down.

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Molly Myers Naumann. "Hotel Hurst Garage". National Park Service . Retrieved 2016-06-15. with two photos from c. 1989