816 Commercial St., Grinnell, Iowa. County/parish: Poweshiek.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 20, 1990. NRIS 90001849.
Part of Grinnell MPS (NRIS 64500158).
1 contributing building.
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.
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.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75337392