Jackson County IA Archives News.....Brown's Hotel Torn Down March 24, 1898 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/iafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ken Wright wright@prestontel.com November 19, 2010, 4:47 am Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa March 24, 1898 Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, March 24, 1898 Brown’s Hotel Torn Down The project of tearing down the old frame building known as “Brown’s Hotel,” and which stood in the alley at the rear of the residence of Mrs. Schaub, has been under consideration for several weeks and was accomplished the latter part of last week. The history of this building is so well known and has been so much written of that a further recital here is unnecessary. It was built by the notorious W. W. Brown, in 1837 and was the main part of the old, original Brown’s Hotel, in which the “Bellevue War” took place three years later. It was constructed of solid brick masonry, with hewn oak studding and butternut weatherboarding, and although having defied the storms of over sixty years, would have remained standing for many more had it not been torn down. It was unquestionably the oldest frame building in the state. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ia/jackson/newspapers/brownsho154nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/iafiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb