Built 1912 Opened 1912 Architecture firm Proudfoot & Bird | NRHP Reference # 99000491 Architectural style Chicago school Added to NRHP 29 April 1999 | |
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MPS Architectural Legacy of Proudfoot & Bird in Iowa MPS Similar Salisbury House, Temple for Performing Arts, Sherman Hill, Blank Park Zoo, Hoyt Sherman Place | ||
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The Teachout Building is an historic building located in the East Village of Des Moines, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
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History
Horace E. Teachout, for whom the building was named, was a developer who helped plan the East Village. He started planning for what would be the tallest building on the east side of Des Moines in 1911, and it would be completed a year later. The Des Moines architectural firm of Proudfoot, Bird and Rawson designed the building in the Early Commercial style. A renovation of the building was begun in the 1970s, but was not completed because of the completion of the MacVicar freeway, Interstate 235, allowed people to bypass the area for other parts of the city and suburbs and made this section of Des Moines less desirable. It sat empty until it was eventually renovated in the 1990s. It currently houses retail businesses, offices and a private residence on the sixth floor.