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Sprague, Brown, and Knowlton Store

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Area
  
less than one acre

Built by
  
David Harris

Added to NRHP
  
29 September 1987

Built
  
1866

Opened
  
1866

Sprague, Brown, and Knowlton Store

Location
  
1st and Court Winterset, Iowa

Part of
  
Winterset Courthouse Square Commercial Historic District (#15000915)

MPS
  
Legacy in Stone: The Settlement Era of Madison County, Iowa TR

The Sprague, Brown, and Knowlton Store is a historic building located in Winterset, Iowa, United States. Built in 1866 to house a dry goods store, it is an early example of a vernacular limestone commercial building. The two-story structure is composed of locally quarried ashlar and rubble stone. It features chamfered quoins and jambs, and a bracketed stone cornice. Its construction has been attributed to local stonemason David Harris. The storefront has subsequently been altered. The building was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, and it was included as a contributing property in the Winterset Courthouse Square Commercial Historic District in 2015.

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Sprague, Brown, and Knowlton Store Wikipedia