Business located at 406 Kirkwood Avenue. CRANDIC railway tracks were on the left, just out of view in this photograph. This building housed the Iowa City Flint Glass Works 1881-1882.
The Spaulding factory came into the possession of the Spaulding company in 1876. It suffered through a tornado in 1882 when the "factory was virtually demolished" according to the Des Moines Tribune. A fire in March 1893 caused $60,000 in damage. In…
