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Clemens Automobile Company Building

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until 2016, the two buildings were linked across the alley in 1985. The first and second floors housed Raccoon River Brewing Co. from May 1997 to March 2015. The building underwent a renovation in 2015 when it was converted to 44 apartments. At that time, the connection to the Hotel Fort Des Moines
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department, and the remaining three floors and the basement were used for storage. The Clemens family was involved in a variety of business enterprises and another one of their companies, the Standard Glass and Paint Company, was housed here from 1924 to 1979. The building was part of the
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from 1916 to 1923. There was a claim that this was the largest building in the city that was devoted to automobiles. The first floor was used for the main sales room and offices, the second floor was used for used car sales and the service department, the fourth floor was used for a paint
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The building is a six-story brick structure with a reinforced concrete skeleton that rises 95 feet (29 m) above the ground. It is thought that the Des Moines architectural firm of Sawyer & Watrous designed the
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was sealed off. The first floor has been home to southern restaurant Bubba
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Clemens Automobile Company Building is located in Iowa
Clemens Automobile Company Building is located in the United States
Des Moines, Iowa
41°35′3″N 93°37′46″W / 41.58417°N 93.62944°W / 41.58417; -93.62944
Classical Revival
Early Commercial
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Des Moines, Iowa
Willys-Overland Motors
Hotel Fort Des Moines
https://bubbadsm.com/
Neoclassical
National Register of Historic Places


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


"Clemens Automobile Company Building"
National Park Service
photo(s)
"Raccoon River Brewing's end not an easy decision"
"Clemens building sold; luxury apartments planned"
"Bubba, D.M.'s biggest restaurant opening in 2016, debuts Thursday"
"Clemens Building"
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