This century-old building on Court Avenue displays a high-top, readable faded advertisement for the former head company in this building, Warfield Pratt & Howell Company. There is also a barely readable rectangle-shaped advertisement right above the Buzzard Billy's Cafe sign. The exact date of commencement of the building is unknown. One of the founders, J.W. Howell, lived in a residence on Grand Avenue that was later demolished. The property is now Martin Luther King Jr. Pkwy.
A collection of signs past and present in the Hartford of the West: Des Moines, Iowa.
7/28/2010
Warfield-Pratt-Howell Company: circa 1900
This century-old building on Court Avenue displays a high-top, readable faded advertisement for the former head company in this building, Warfield Pratt & Howell Company. There is also a barely readable rectangle-shaped advertisement right above the Buzzard Billy's Cafe sign. The exact date of commencement of the building is unknown. One of the founders, J.W. Howell, lived in a residence on Grand Avenue that was later demolished. The property is now Martin Luther King Jr. Pkwy.
Labels:
court avenue,
downtown,
restaurants,
warehouses
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