Chew on This: Auto Row/Mansion Hill

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  • 4/09/24
  • 12:30 - 7 p.m.
  • $5 – $7
  • All Ages

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  • Educational

Event Description

Bring your sack lunch and we’ll provide the dessert!

​Learn about the area originally known as “Mansion Hill'' along Third, Second and First Avenues East. Get a closer look at the very few surviving 19th century residences on the “Hill”.

Discover how this section of Cedar Rapids was transformed into “Automobile Row” following the routing of the Lincoln Highway as early as1913. See many of the restored “Auto Row” structures and get updates on how the area is changing with the expanding MedQuarter District.

Presented by: Jenny Thielman

​Tickets: $7.00 general admission; $5.00 for members of The History Center

​Chew on this! is sponsored by Rob & Kathy Cook

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