Salisbury House

ID: 249 ~ Source: WikiMedia Commons ~ Creator: Jmaxschwerd, photographer ~ Date: 2011
This file appears in: History of the Rowat Cut Stone Co.
Salisbury House
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Photograph of the Salisbury House from the gardens, Des Moines, Iowa

Additional Information

Subject

Architecture

Contributor

Byron Bennett Boyd, Herbert J. Moore, and William Rasmussen, architects

Relation

National Register of Historic Places

Type

Image

Coverage

Tudor Revival
This file appears in: History of the Rowat Cut Stone Co.

By Thomas W. Rowat
A history of the Rowat Cut Stone Company should begin many years back. In fact, in 1850 a boy was born into a large family in Kilmarnock, Scotland. This boy started to learn to be a stonecutter at the age of 14 and just after he was 21 years old he…