This picture originally appeared in an atlas of Iowa published in 1875.
The top of your picture is West, the bottom is East.
The following description of this picture appeared in the Aug 18, 1938 issue of the New
Hampton Tribune:
In the lower right hand corner of the picture is a picket fence marking the present location of
the Miller Hotel on the NW corner of E. Main and N. Water.
The building on the right of the Miller Hotel corner is now occupied (1938) by the Ted Schulte
place. Next door John F. Woolsey ran a machine shop.
Mapes Hall occupied the corner now (1938) known as the Wesp Garage corner (SE Corner of E.
Prospect and N. Locust).
Along Main Street and west of Woolsey's is the First National Bank building, the Sherman Bros
store where Sheakley & Kennedy later located, and Fred Bosworth's bank building.
On the left side of the picture is a windmill marking the location of the old town pump where
farmers watered their horses when they came to town. The express office is now (1938) located
where the town pump once stood.
South of the town pump is the former residence of A.E. Bigelow.
A block west of the pump were 2 livery stables. The Fleming garage now occupies that site (on
the west side of S. Locust).
Moving west along Main Street, from the corner of S. Locust, were Sarah's Shoppe, Krueger &
Barnhart and Donnelly's Cafe are located in 1938, stood an old hotel owned by H.L. Fitch which
burned down in 1881.
West of Fitch's hotel was a building owned and occupied by Weston Gardner (father of Henry
Gardner).
A creamery was located on West Main Street.
To the extreme left of the picture is a building standing all alone; this was the residence of
E.T. Runion.
