Stone City Historic District

The Stone City Historic District is located in Stone City, Iowa, United States. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district in November 2008. The buildings of Stone City Historic District were constructed using Anamosa Limestone quarried locally and built between 1870 and 1913.

History

In 1870 Henry Dearborn, owner of Stone City Quarries, built his home near his business.^[2] With the help of John Green Mr. Dearborn also built what became known as the General Store in 1897. The General Store at one time was the location of the town post office.

Contributing properties

Stone Barn

Stone Water Tower

• The John A. Green Estate (also known as the Green-Nissen Estate) covers 200 acres (0.81 km²) of land.^[3] The estate consists of the Green mansion, ice house, water tower, barn, and office building were each built of Anamosa Limestone quarried from John Green's own local business. During the summers of 1932 and 1933 the Green Estate became the location of Stone City Art Colony.^[4]
• Construction began on St. Joseph's Church in 1913. The first mass was held in 1914. The church was designed by Dubuque, Iowa architect Guido Beck. The stained glass windows of the church were imported from Germany. The limestone used for the building was donated by local quarries. The labor to construct the church was also donated by city quarry businesses.^[5]
• The General Store was owned by Henry Dearborn. In the late 1890s he commissioned John Green to build the general store. In 1897 the city post office was moved from the Dearborn residence to the general store where it remained in operation until the government closed it down in 1954. The store was also headquarters for the village telegraph and was the town's only gas station. The store remained in the Dearborn family until the late 1950s.^[6]

References

External links

• Media related to Stone City, Iowa at Wikimedia Commons

Properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa
	Adair Adams Allamakee Appanoose Audubon Benton Black Hawk Boone Bremer Buchanan Buena Vista Butler Calhoun Carroll Cass Cedar Cerro Gordo Cherokee Chickasaw Clarke Clay Clayton Clinton Crawford Dallas Davis Decatur Delaware Des Moines Dickinson Dubuque Emmet Fayette Floyd Franklin Fremont Greene Grundy Guthrie Hamilton Hancock Hardin Harrison Henry Howard Humboldt Ida Iowa Jackson Jasper Jefferson Johnson Jones Keokuk Kossuth Lee Linn Louisa Lucas Lyon Madison Mahaska Marion Marshall Mills Mitchell Monona Monroe Montgomery Muscatine O'Brien Osceola Page Palo Alto Plymouth Pocahontas Polk Pottawattamie Poweshiek Ringgold Sac Scott Shelby Sioux Story Tama Taylor Union Van Buren Wapello Warren Washington Wayne Webster Winnebago Winneshiek Woodbury Worth Wright

National Register of Historic Places in Jones County, Iowa
Anamosa	Anamosa Main Street Historic District Anamosa Public Library Antioch School Edmund and Mary Ann Walworth Booth House Farm No. 1, Iowa Men's Reformatory Fremont Mill Bridge John A. Green Estate Hale Bridge Iowa Men's Reformatory Cemetery Iowa Men's Reformatory Historic District Jones County Courthouse Lower Road Bridge Rick's Brewery Col. William T. and Elizabeth C. Shaw House State Quarry, Iowa Men's Reformatory Wapsipinicon State Park Historic District
Cascade	Farm Creek Historic District Kenny Farmstead Archeological District
Monticello	Ely's Stone Bridge S.S. Farwell House Moore's Ford Bridge Odd Fellows Hall St. Luke's Methodist Church
Olin	Business Part of Olin Historic District
Scotch Grove	Corbett's/Eby's Mill Bridge Scotch Grove Historic District
Stone City	St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Stone City Historic District
Wyoming	Dr. Martin H. Caulkins House and Office
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Jones County, Iowa and List of National Historic Landmarks in Iowa