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Just A Little About Iowa City Iowa
Downtown Iowa City has always been the heart and soul of the community. The history of Iowa City began here and it is here that people gather to experience the city's charming, and eclectic spirit.
Downtown Iowa City, Iowa.
Iowa City was literally carved out of native prairie in 1839. It was organized by Fiat of the Iowa Territorial Legislature and U.S. Congress and was intended to be the first permanent location of Iowa's early seat of government. Chauncey Swan, John Ronalds, and Robert Ralston were appointed to be the commissioners for the locating and planning of the new capitol. Thomas Cox and John Frierson were hired to survey the original town plat and L. Judson was hired to draw the plat dated to June 27, 1839. Field survey was completed by October and lithograph copies were being distributed by December.
The Iowa City area has been home to many diverse groups of Native Americans beginning roughly 13,000 years ago and continuing into the initial settlement period. Historian Benjamin F. Shambaugh of the University of Iowa and State Historical Society noted that the new town plat "...was a wilderness, in which the Indian camp-fires had scarcely gone out." Indian cultures include hunter-gatherers from the Paleo-Indian and Archaic Periods, Woodland and Late Prehistoric agriculturalist mound builders, and Meskwaki villages from the historic period. The first immigrants from Europe came from Germany, the Czech Republic, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, and Great Britain. With the draw of the University of Iowa, Iowa City has seen temporary and permanent immigration from all over the world.
Fall Follage displayed in Iowa City, Iowa.
Since 1839, the visible terrain of Iowa City has largely become buildings, streets, and landscaping. The first permanent buildings in Iowa City were constructed to meet the immediate need of shelter and meeting space for the territorial legislature while the wood and stone capitol building was being completed. William Butler's Capitol and a somewhat dodgy hotel called lean-back hall were two simple wooden frame structures dating to that time. A competing technology was whole log construction, such as the Mathew Teneyck hotel that also served as an early church. Even though it was a two-story structure, it was still called a "cabin." In the decades following but prior to 1850, many mixed use structures with store fronts on the lower level and offices and apartments in the upper stories were built of wood. Few structures from that time period survived the many fires and the ever-present urge to modernize our downtown. The last known building from the settlement period was the Sydel grocery that was torn down in 1911.
As construction of the Old Capitol came to its completion in the 1840s, the stone masons turned their skills to building several structures of heavy stone block. Unfortunately, the demand for their skills was soon diminished and buildings were made of brick and wood construction beginning in the 1840s. As time passed, steam power and coal-fired kilns improved the quality and consistency of bricks. By 1912 the numerous local brick makers together were producing well over a million bricks each year to answer the demand for this durable, long-lived, and largely fire-proof material.
Iowa City, Iowa State Capital Building.
The stylistic groups for architecture in Iowa City's downtown began with the Greek Revival period common in the American Federal period. Its use reflected the common aesthetic that looked toward the virtues of democracy and intellectual enlightenment. The exterior design of the buildings was a simplified and stylized version of this movement that became much more elaborate in the East and southern U.S. Beginning in the 1870s, a large number of buildings were built in or upgraded to the Italianate form. The close of the 19th century brought many influences from the School of Beautiful Arts in Paris (l'Ecole des Beaux Arts) as well as the neo-classical and renaissance revivals popularized by the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
Iowa fun in and around Iowa City, Iowa.
Iowa City continues to nurture an architectural legacy in newer buildings by well known contemporary architects such as Frank Gehry. Most of these are University of Iowa buildings in the River Cultural District across the river.
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