As National Historic Preservation Month comes to a close, we went and took a tour of a truly rare building - a two-and-a-half-story apartment building on Gaines Street built in 1852.
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Family Story Gallery
Once inside, visitors will find a new upper-level Family Story Gallery exhibit celebrating some of Burlington s early families, complete with photos and items they would have used. We try to tie artifacts to actual people if we can to make (the history) more real, said Schneiderman.
Space dedicated to clothing merchant Solomon Herschler, who headed the initial wave of Jews to Burlington in the 1850s, and became a prominent citizen and alderman who established a Jewish cemetery here, includes items from Temple Israel including a menorah, a men s prayer shawl, a velvet-embroidered shawl case, and a close to 100-year-old children s prayer book that belonged to Schneiderman s great-grandfather.
From 2016: How Iowa City remembered the devastating 2006 tornado 10 years later Andy Davis, Iowa City Press-Citizen
Editors note: This story was republished on April 13, 2021, the 15th anniversary of the tornado touching down in Iowa City. It was 8:35 Thursday night, April 13. I ll always remember the time because all of the clocks stopped when the electricity went out.
It s been 10 years since a tornado slammed into Gloria Walsh s Iowa City home and damaged it beyond recognition.
A reminder can still be seen in the checkerboard pattern of replaced brickwork near the top of the 930 Iowa Ave. home, rebuilt with salvaged bricks from a destroyed law firm near the old post office building downtown.
From 2016: How Iowa City remembered the devastating 2006 tornado 10 years later Andy Davis, Iowa City Press-Citizen
Editors note: This story was republished on April 13, 2021, the 15th anniversary of the tornado touching down in Iowa City. It was 8:35 Thursday night, April 13. I ll always remember the time because all of the clocks stopped when the electricity went out.
It s been 10 years since a tornado slammed into Gloria Walsh s Iowa City home and damaged it beyond recognition.
A reminder can still be seen in the checkerboard pattern of replaced brickwork near the top of the 930 Iowa Ave. home, rebuilt with salvaged bricks from a destroyed law firm near the old post office building downtown.