Ames

AMES

Pop. 8,500 Alt. 972

Control, Sheldon Munn Hotel, 2 blocks north of Highway.

Marshalltown
36.1

Carroll
70.3

Three hotels, 1 modern fireproof hotel costing $250,000, 10 garages. Speed limit, 12-20 miles per hour, enforced.

Lincoln Highway paved through city three miles and passes directly in front of the State Highway Commission building, including offices and shops, costing $250,000. Two railroads, 5 banks, U.S. Railway Express Company.

Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts is considered to be the greatest of its kind with its extensive buildings costing $5,500,000, with 1800 acres of land largely used for experimental purposes. The Lincoln Highway skirts the main college campus of 120 acres. Visitors always welcome. Iowa State College Campus is one of the scenic points in the State of Iowa and is considered by experts to be the most beautiful college campus in America.

Tourists' camp at Maxwell Park, seven blocks from Lincoln Highway, containing conveniences for tourists, water, light, fireplaces and fuel.

Gravel

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

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The Ames Motor Lodge is a 1928 motel - originally called the Ames Tourist Court - and has earned its notoriety for being a Lincoln Highway lodging establishment in continuous service since the day it opened. The Motor Lodge is currently undergoing renovation.

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A block west from the Lincoln Lodge sits long-time Ames watering hole, the Tip-Top Lounge. You have to give the Tip-Top credit for its class of clientele - a Cadillac, a Lincoln (that's the spirit!) and everyone's favorite vehicle, a red-and-orange van.

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On Sheldon Avenue, the north-south connection between Ames and what used to be the separate burg of Ontario.

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Gilbert's Garage was a Lincoln Highway service station on Sheldon, right next to the Iowa State University campus. Just underneath the white and blue GILBERT'S sign at the right of the frame was the narrow entrance for automobiles. It was no bigger than it appears in this photo. At the ILHA Fall meeting in April 1998, members were saddened to see that Gilbert's had been recently razed.

"This town had been in existence a long time before 1914. Ames was then, and is now, a college town, and it houses the agricultural college of the state. The streets were tree lined and the houses nestled amid green lawns. The houses were set far back from the streets and most of them had driveways of sand and gravel. Well-kept yards contained flowering shrubs that were blooming in a great variety of colors. It seemed to us that everything that sprang from the ground in Iowa grew in great profusion."

STORY COUNTY

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