Bowers and McDonald Office Building

Bowers and McDonald Office Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	816 Commercial St. Grinnell, Iowa
Coordinates	41°44′32″N 92°43′29″W / 41.74222°N 92.72472°WCoordinates: 41°44′32″N 92°43′29″W / 41.74222°N 92.72472°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1896
Built by	R.G. Coutts
Architectural style	Romanesque Revival
MPS	Grinnell MPS
NRHP Reference #	90001849[1]
Added to NRHP	April 9, 1991

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. Its construction is attributed to R.G. Coutts, a native Scotland who settled in Grinnell in 1873, who was a stone cutter, mason, building contractor, and real-estate developer.^[2] 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. 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.^[1]

References

1. Staff (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. W.C. Page. "Bowers and McDonald Office Building" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-04-16.