This photographer was taken looking northeast across 1st St. S.E and 1st Ave.
This building was moved twice. It was the original 4th Ward (SE Waverly) school, built about 1868, and sat on the same corner as Lincoln school. When Lincoln school was constructed in 1897, John Sager, a real estate agent, bought the building and moved it to his lots on E. Bremer Ave. across from the courthouse where it was occupied by the Woman's Relief Corps [WRC] In 1902, the Chicago Great Western railroad began buying property for their right of way, including Sager’s property. The railroad donated the building to the Women’s Relief Corp. who moved it to the lot shown in the photo [just west of the Post Office.] The WRC remodeled it for use by their society. The building was sold to the VFW in 1944; they owned it until it was destroyed by a gas leak explosion and fire September 30, 1953.
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This photographer was taken looking northeast across 1st St. S.E and 1st Ave.
This building was moved twice. It was the original 4th Ward (SE Waverly) school, built about 1868, and sat on the same corner as Lincoln school. When Lincoln school was constructed in 1897, John Sager, a real estate agent, bought the building and moved it to his lots on E. Bremer Ave. across from the courthouse where it was occupied by the Woman's Relief Corps [WRC] In 1902, the Chicago Great Western railroad began buying property for their right of way, including Sager’s property. The railroad donated the building to the Women’s Relief Corp. who moved it to the lot shown in the photo [just west of the Post Office.] The WRC remodeled it for use by their society. The building was sold to the VFW in 1944; they owned it until it was destroyed by a gas leak explosion and fire September 30, 1953.
Additional photographs and resources can be found at the Waverly Public Library on the local and family history page http://www.waverlyia.com/public-library/research/local-and-family-history-collection.aspx Accession No 91M002