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Teachout Building
U.S. Historic district
Contributing property
Teachout Bldg Des Moines IA.jpg
Teachout Building is located in Iowa
Teachout Building
Location in Iowa
Teachout Building is located in the United States
Teachout Building
Location in the United States
Location 500-502 E. Locust St.
Des Moines, Iowa
Area less than one acre
Built 1912
Architect Proudfoot, Bird and Rawson
Architectural style Early Commercial
Part of East Des Moines Commercial Historic District (ID100003523)
MPS Architectural Legacy of Proudfoot & Bird in Iowa MPS
NRHP reference No. 99000491
Added to NRHP April 29, 1999

The Teachout Building is an historic building located in the East Village of Des Moines, Iowa, United States. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. In 2019 the building was included as a contributing property in the East Des Moines Commercial Historic District.

History

Horace E. Teachout, for whom the building was named, was a developer who helped plan the East Village. He started planning for what would be the tallest building on the east side of Des Moines in 1911, and it would be completed a year later. The prominent Des Moines architectural firm of Proudfoot, Bird and Rawson designed the building in the Early Commercial style. It was one of the few high-rise buildings designed by the firm. A renovation of the building was begun in the 1970s, but was not completed because of the completion of the MacVicar freeway, Interstate 235, allowed people to bypass the area for other parts of the city and suburbs and made this section of Des Moines less desirable. It sat empty until it was eventually renovated in the 1990s. It currently houses retail businesses, offices and a private residence on the sixth floor.

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