Meats/Grocery

214, 216 E Coolbaugh Street, Red Oak, Iowa 51566

Year Built:

1902

Architect:

Unknown

Style:

Classical Revival

History

Modifications: In 1953-1954, storefront modernizations. In c. 2014, storefront reconstructed to resemble historic storefront.

Height: Two story.

Walls: Brick.

Storefront: Large wood display windows and transoms, wood door, brick pilasters with decorative column capitals.

Windows: Wood 1/1 double hung windows.

Stylistic Features: Bracketed, metal cornice, wide cornice seperating 1st and 2nd stories, classical keystones and classical column capitals.

Past Businesses

214 E Coolbaugh St
1908-1914 Meats
1917 Smaha Brothers Meat Market
1917 Ted’s Cigar Store
1919 Sammie’s Place (Cigars & Tobacco)
1928 Western Union (Telegraph Office)
1934-1945 Roy Westerlund Cigar Store
1955 Richards & Richards (Law Office)

216 E Coolbaugh St
1908 Grocery
1909-1945 Blue Front Café
1914 Barber
1917 E.T. Lewellen (Barber)
1955 Westerlund’s (Cigar Store)
1955 N.F. (Bud) Wilkin’s Insurance Agency
1955 Jay Corbin (Real Estate)

Explore the historical fabric of downtown Red Oak

73 Historical Buildings, 1 Historical Site, and 8 Historical Objects.

The Red Oak Downtown Historic District has a story to tell. Each individual building itself might not have a depth of historical value, but the woven fabric threaded between each building by commerce, community, fire, and war decorates a story that must be shared.