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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...
Guido Beck’s St. Columbkille Catholic Church
St. Columbkille Catholic Church Built 1904 - 1905 Located at 1240 Rush Street Four years after the completion of the St. Anthony Church, the Archdiocese of Dubuque again commissioned Dubuque architect, Guido Beck to design his second church in Dubuque for the parish...
Guido Beck’s St. Anthony Catholic Church
St. Anthony Catholic Church Built 1900 Located at the corner of Rosedale and St. Ambrose Streets Dubuque architect, Guido Beck designed St. Anthony Church in 1900 in the Gothic Revival style of architecture. The St. Anthony Parish was formed in 1868 and underwent a...
Architect of the Month: Guido Beck, October 2016
Guido Beck (1853 – 1936), was a Dubuque architect who specialized in the architecture of churches and schools. Beck was born on January 25, 1853, in Hohenzollern, Germany where he received his early education and later studied architecture at Stuttgart and the...