Carvings From Out of the Past

ID: 310 ~ Source: ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Iowa Collection ~ Creator: Des Moines Register ~ Date: 1970-10-25
This file appears in: Cherry Place
Carvings From Out of the Past
Copyright Gannett Co., Inc. Oct 25, 1970

Caption: Eighteen-year-old Vicki Jones of Des Moines admires the hand wood carvings that adorn "Cherry Place," a home built in the 1880s on the northeast corner of Grand Avenue and East Twelfth Street in Des Moines. The structure will so be razed to provide room for an expansion of the Statehouse grounds.

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Subject

Architecture

Publisher

Gannett Co., Inc.

Type

Image
This file appears in: Cherry Place

By Halla Rhode
*Original article published in The Annals of Iowa 20 (1936), State Historical Society of Iowa.  Isaac Brandt and his family moved to Des Moines in the spring of 1858 and decided to locate on the east side of the Des Moines River because of its…