Hotel Ottumwa (1916)

The Hotel Ottumwa, now Parkview Plaza, is south of Central Park on Second Street. It was built by a group of Ottumwa businessmen who felt the community needed a fine, luxury-class hotel.

The six-story Renaissance Revival building is brick, with a wealth of classical details executed in terra cotta.

The architects, Proudfoot, Bird and Rawson of Des Moines, Iowa, returned to Ottumwa 25 years later to design the only other 6-story building in town, the Hofmann Building (now the Harvester Building) a few blocks east, at the intersection of Market and Second Streets.

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