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Northwestern Hotel (Des Moines, Iowa)

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1052: 915: 100: 75: 61: 290:. The hotel also had an arrangement with the railroad to accommodate its employees in their rooms. This building replaced a previous hotel with the same name in the same location. It was built by Otto Starzinger, whose parents Frank and Anna built and ran the hotel before him. Other businesses housed on the first floor included a restaurant, cigar stand, and a drug store. Eventually, the building went into a slow period of decline before 926: 107: 82: 315:, had their own bathrooms. The other guest rooms shared bathrooms. The building was originally designed to be six stories high, but it had to be scaled back to three. However, the underpinnings of the building exist to support additional stories, and cast concrete supports and a fourth-floor fireplace are located in the attic. 1586: 310:
at the roofline. Most of the building's decorations were limited to the lobby of the hotel when it was constructed. The first floor housed retail space in addition to the hotel's lobby. A ballroom, with its own skylight, and guest rooms were on the second floor. The guest rooms of the second
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officials forced it to close in 1982. A group of lawyers remodeled the building for office use in 1983. The building currently houses retail space on the first floor.
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and third floor were generally small and were arranged around spaces with skylights. Some of the larger suites, which had a view of the
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Opening in 1916, the Northwestern Hotel was built to serve the needs of railroad employees and passengers from the nearby
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Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Iowa
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depot, and other people of modest means. It was particularly popular with people during the
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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Des Moines Fire Department Headquarters-Fire Station No. 1 and Shop Building
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The building was designed by the prominent Des Moines architectural firm of
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List of jails and prisons on the National Register of Historic Places
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Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Des Moines, Iowa
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Home Federal Savings and Loan Association of Des Moines Building
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Walnut Tire and Battery Co.-Globe Publishing Company Building
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L. Harbach and Sons Furniture Warehouse and Factory Complex
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American Republic Insurance Company Headquarters Building
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Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School
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Iowa Ford Tractor Company Repair and Warehouse Building
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Mack-International Motor Truck Corporation Building
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Contributing property

Northwestern Hotel (Des Moines, Iowa) is located in Iowa
Northwestern Hotel (Des Moines, Iowa) is located in the United States
Des Moines, Iowa
41°35′16.9″N 93°36′45″W / 41.588028°N 93.61250°W / 41.588028; -93.61250
Proudfoot, Bird & Rawson
Renaissance Revival
East Des Moines Commercial Historic District
ID100001700
84001300
East Village
Des Moines, Iowa
United States
National Register of Historic Places
contributing property
East Des Moines Industrial Historic District
Chicago and North Western
Iowa State Fair
Polk County
Proudfoot, Bird & Rawson
cornice
capitol building


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service

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