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Wilson Building

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1912–1914, John Morrell and Sons. 217 5th Ave. S.
  • Wilson Building (Richard Guy Wilson)

The Wilson Building is Clinton's one skyscraper, a six-story commercial building clothed in a creamy white terracotta. The architects have contained the windows within a frame from the second to fifth floors. The vertical sections of this frame have been articulated by fluting to suggest that they are piers.

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David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim
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David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim, "Wilson Building", [Clinton, Iowa], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/IA-01-ME065.

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