CEDAR COUNTY

Mechanicsville

MECHANICSVILLE	Pop. 875	Control, E.B. Sperry Drug Store.
Clinton 57.3	Cedar Rapids 22.7	Two hotels, 2 garages. Local speed limit, 15 miles per hour, enforced. Two banks, C&NW Railroad, 25 general business places, express company, 2 telephone companies, 1 newspaper
Graded Dirt		L.H. Local Consul, E.B. Sperry

- A Complete Official Road Guide of The LINCOLN HIGHWAY Fifth Edition (1924)

Mechanicsville.
The Page Apartments building has been a Mechanicsville and Lincoln Highway landmark since the 1800s when it was called the Page Hotel.

Mechanicsville.
The Page Apartments big picture. Note that at some time - probably the architecturally suspect 1960s - the original windows on the first floor were replaced with contemporary "treatments." The darker brick outlines where the lintels once were.

Mechanicsville.
Some "ghost advertising" on old brick walls. Lots of nice brick buildings still line the streets of this town.

Mechanicsville.
Looks like once upon a time Mechanicsville had quite the competitive flour market.

"Unwrapping our cases from the muddy covering and leaving the auto housed in the stable for the night, we made for the Page Hotel [now Page Apartments]. We ate supper in the City Restaurant with some country lads sitting at a couple of nearby tables. Over in one corner stood an ancient-vintage piano. The sight of four women gave the proprietor the inspiration and courage to ask one of us to play it. I could imagine what its tone would be, but I felt the urge to relieve the tension of the day's driving, so I casually tossed off a couple of light numbers."

- Alice Huyler Ramsey, 1909