Linda Mayrose, a director with the Le Mars Historical Preservation Commission stands next to one of 94 photos featuring Le Mars buildings of the past. The photos are of buildings and/or businesses that once stood at the location.
(Le Mars) — If you have been downtown lately, you may have noticed several black-and-white photographs of buildings of the past now posted in the windows of the current existing business. The Le Mars Historical Preservation Commission decided to feature the photos as their unique contribution in honor of the Le Mars Sesquicentennial celebration. Linda Mayrose serves as a director with the Historical Preservation Commission. She
says the project started nearly two years ago.
Mayrose says the Historical Preservation Commission funded the entire project without any funding assistance from the current businesses. She says the intent is to have the businesses keep the old photographs posted through the Sesquicentennial celebration. She says all the business owners were excited
about the project.
Mayrose encourages people to walk around the downtown region to view the old photographs of the businesses and buildings of past years. She says the Historic Preservation Commission looks at this as a way to tie the new with the old.
The Historic Preservation Commission director suggests people to not only look at the featured old photographs during their downtown tour, but to also look up and take a good look at the architecture of the downtown structures. She asks if anyone knows that there is a three-story building located downtown.
Mayrose is one of the six authors of the Le Mars Sesquicentennial History Book. She says one of her favorite aspects of the book is the areas of Le Mars that has been designated as part of the National Registry of Historic Places which include the Foster Park neighborhood, the downtown district, and what was known as the W-P-A park, now known as the Municipal Park.
As we have mentioned before, the Le Mars Sesquicentennial History Book is scheduled to arrive next week during the Sesquicentennial celebration.
