1986
Citation: 100.545.1-2 (Full image size: 45Kb)
Jack Shelley, on January 14, 1986, speaking at the annual meeting of the Ames Heritage Association (later re-named the Ames Historical Society) in the Ames Public Library auditorium. The topic of his talk was the major factors contributing to the success of three Boone County historical projects: the Mamie Eisenhower birthplace, the Boone & Scenic Railroad museum, and the Kate Shelley memorial. Shelley, who grew up in Boone, was at the time of his talk the president of the Boone County Historical Society. Shelley is the nephew of local hero Kate Shelley, who in 1881 at the age of fifteen notified authorities when a railroad bridge washed out during a storm. He had been a war correspondent during World War II, a journalist, and a radio/television personality. Shelley, now in his 90s [2006] and a professor emeritus of the Dept. of Journalism and Mass Communication at Iowa State University, lives in Ames.
Citation: 113.621.1 (Full image size: 105Kb)
Taken at the construction of the foundation for the relocation of the Bauge log cabin to McFarland Park in 1986. The cabin was moved from its original site near Huxley, Iowa, as a project of the Ames Heritage Association. (See also a similar photograph: 113.622.4)
Citation: 113.621.2 (Full image size: 102Kb)
Taken at the construction of the foundation for the relocation of the Bauge log cabin to McFarland Park in 1986. The cabin was moved from its original site near Huxley, Iowa, as a project of the Ames Heritage Association. (See also similar photographs: 113.622.1-2 and 113.622.3)
Citation: 94.509.1 (Full image size: 101Kb)
Taken by Farwell Brown in 1986, this is the exterior of the Sharp log home, located northeast of Huxley, Iowa. The log portion of his home, occupied in 1986 by its last resident Roy Thomas, dates from 1854 when it was built by Andrew Bard. Bard's granddaughter, Margaret Sharp, lived here from 1901 to 1981 when she died. Roy Thomas was Margaret's cousin. The cabin was torn down after Thomas's death in 1987 or 1988. Parts of the structure and its furnishings were utilized in the Bauge cabin restoration by the Ames Heritage Association.
Citation: 97.524.2 (Full image size: 295Kb)
The ruins of the Bloomington School, taken by Farwell Brown shortly after the upper roof had collapsed in 1986. Located about a mile west of Dayton Road in Ames on the Olson Farm near the present-day [2008] site of the National Animal Disease Center, the one-room schoolhouse could have been maintained as an historic site, but, obviously, was not. Shortly after this picture was taken, the structure was demolished. Parts of this structure were used to restore the old Hoggatt School, an Ames one-room schoolhouse which now occupies part of the campus of Meeker Elementary School. The wainscotting, for example, were used in the Hoggatt restoration, which was the first big project of the Ames Heritage Association [since 2004, the Ames Historical Society]. When the village of Bloomington was still in existence, its one-room school was located northeast of the town of Ames. Bloomington School was in operation through 1945. [other views of Bloomington school taken in 1986 by Farwell Brown: 97.524.1 and 97.524.3]
Citation: 97.524.4 (Full image size: 102Kb)
Photograph taken by Farwell Brown of the tumbled- down Bloomington School after it collapsed in 1986, a former one-room schoolhouse once operating in the village of Bloomington, Iowa, northeast of Ames. The village no long exists. Parts of this schoolhouse were used to restore the old Hoggatt School, an Ames one-room schoolhouse which now occupies part of the campus of Meeker Elementary School. The wainscotting in the interior, for example, were used in the Hoggatt restoration. The restoration was an early project of the Ames Heritage Association. (Other photographs of the site that are not a part of the digitized collection: 97.524.1; 97.524.2; and 97.524.3) For an extended article about Bloomington School, see "The Ames Intelligencer," Winter, 1986-87, published by the Ames Heritage Association.
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