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Collapse at Lyman-Stark Building reshaped Cedar Rapids history
In Cedar Rapids the Lyman Brothers grew from a millinery shop to the Lyman Stark Co, then planned a seven story building on South Third Street and Fourth Avenue. On November 14 1913 the top floors buckled during concrete pours, triggering a fatal collapse that killed seven and led to lawsuits, rebuilds, and the building’s eventual renaming to the Iowa Building housing civil services, engineering firms, and later Jimmy John’s.
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Edar Rapids
Cedar Rapids
Fred A. Lyman
Sharon
Wis
Lyman
E.W. Howe & Co
Louise Ellis
Robert Ellis
Chicago
O.W
Kimball Building
Lyman Brothers
Lyman Bros. Co
Denver
Fred Lyman
W.H. Stark
R.R. Mayberry
Lyman-Stark
South Third Street
Fourth Avenue
Lauritzen and Wasson
Waterloo
H.J. Bishop
The
Evening Gazette
J.M. Groves
George Burrell
Matt Huston
William Lowe
William Schneider
Charles Brown
Third Street
D.E. Rummell
Walter Bachman
Rummell
E.W. LaPlant
David King
Building License Board
Commissioner of Public Safety
City Electrician
Stark
J.C. Mardis Engineering Co
Lyman- Stark
Iowa
Lyman-Stark Retail Millinery
Century Engineering Co
Department of Human Services
Jimmy John’s
Gazette Pho
Cedar Rapids Savings Bank
Guaranty Bank
Carnegie Public Library
First Presbyterian Church
St. Paul’s United Methodist Church
Washington High School
Union Station
Iowa Building
Lyman-Stark Building
Second Presbyterian Church
Fourth Avenue SE