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Legacy Business Spotlight: Dubuque’s Italian Restaurants
In the coming months, Heritage Works will be sharing the histories of some of Dubuque’s legacy businesses. To read more about what legacy businesses are and why they are important, read our first legacy business blog here. Read below for our next legacy business...
Heritage Works Board of Directors Election Results
April 28, 2020 (Dubuque, IA)—Heritage Works, Dubuque’s not-for-profit organization which leverages architectural heritage to drive community revitalization and economic development, elected at its annual meeting the following individuals to its board of directors:...
Legacy Business Spotlight: Hartig Drug Company
In the coming months, Heritage Works will be sharing the histories of some of Dubuque’s legacy businesses. To read more about what legacy businesses are and why they are important, read our first legacy business blog here. Read below for our next legacy business...
Legacy Business Spotlight: Graham’s Style Store
If walls could talk, historic buildings would have many stories to tell. Historic buildings are not just bricks, mortar and boards. They are an accumulation of the history of the various occupants of those buildings over time. Dubuque is fortunate to have many...
Dubuque’s Streetcar Lines
By Bill Doyle, Preservation & Programs Manager at Heritage Works As a young person, I was interested in understanding the world around me. I did my undergrad in Anthropology, and one of my favorite courses studied the interactions between humans and the...
Why Preservation Matters
By Megan Viertel, Communications & Marketing Coordinator at Heritage Works It has been over three months since I started my role as Communications and Marketing Coordinator at Heritage Works. I walked in on my first day as a recent college graduate with only a...
Energy Efficiency in Historic Homes
Living in a historic home is both uniquely challenging and rewarding. The way in which we live today is far different from how people lived when historic homes were built. It is a fair assumption that most historic homeowners will want to modernize their homes to...
Finding Dubuque: An Iowa City Rediscovers Its Sense of Place
Preservation Magazine, Fall 2018 By: Lisa Selin Davis Photos by: Matthew Gilson On a sweltering May afternoon, a select group of around 30 of Dubuque, Iowa’s business, nonprofit, and government leaders gathered at the home of Andy and Debi Butler, a renovated Shingle...
Guido Beck’s Holy Ghost Catholic Church
Holy Ghost Catholic Church Built: 1915 Located: 2921 Central Ave The Holy Ghost Catholic Church was one of the last major Dubuque church designs by architect, Guido Beck. Beck designed this church in the Italian Renaissance style of architecture in 1915, reflecting a...
Guido Beck’s St. Joseph’s Chapel at Loras College
St. Joseph’s Chapel at Loras College Built 1909 Located at the Intersection of Loras Blvd and Walnut St Architect, Guido Beck’s next major design in Dubuque came in 1909 when he was granted the contract for building St. Joseph College’s (Loras College) chapel and...