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TRUSS AND BUTTRESS SOCIETY
TRUSS AND BUTTRESS SOCIETY. A bus trip to the City House Home Improvement Fair at Chicago's McCormick Place West was announced by the Truss and Buttress Society for March 28, 1981.
The Society of seventeen members was especially busy in 1983. In April a tea held at the home of Paul and Pam Peckosh was used to publicize the group's tour of homes. In conjunction with DUBUQUEFEST, the Society offered a tour on May 21-22 of seven Victorian homes whose residents dressed in Victorian costumes and demonstrated early customs. (1) The same year the group donated $500 toward the estimated cost of applying new gold leaf to the dome of the DUBUQUE COUNTY COURTHOUSE. (2)
The Society sponsored tours of the REDSTONE in 1984 and were representatives at the rededication of the Dubuque County Courthouse.
Encouraged by the response in 1983 and 1984, the Society sponsored a tour of four Dubuque mansions in the LANGWORTHY HISTORIC PRESERVATION DISTRICT, the first such district in Iowa, as part of the 1985 DubuqueFest. Advanced publicity was provided at ARTSCAPE on Group W. Cable Channel 28. (3) Homes included on the tour included those at 1015 W. Third, 1045 W. Third (built by Edward LANGWORTHY in 1896, 1072 W. Third built for (COLLIER, James|James COLLIER]], and 690 Fenelon Place. In addition to the tour of homes, a Victorian tea was open to the public on the tour in the garden of Dr. Darryl and Terry Mozena. (4)
Nearly the entire Society treated five midwestern governors during the Midwestern Governor's Conference held in Galena in 1987. The MISSISSIPPI BELLE II owned and operated by Robert KEHL was decorated in a Victorian theme. Society members mingled with the guests and explained the local history of the area. (5)
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Source:
1. Drouin-Smith, Marcia, "DubuqueFest Offers Something for Everyone," Telegraph Herald, May 18, 1983, p. 16
2. Johnson, Patt, "Addition Could Save $800 a Day for Sunnycrest," Telegraph Herald, November 29, 1983, p. 2
3. "Potpourri," Telegraph Herald, March 7, 1985, p. 6
4. "Taking a Peek at the Past," Telegraph Herald, May 17, 1895, p. 4
5. Johnson, Patt, "Governors to be Floated Renaissance Style," Telegraph Herald, September 13, 1987, p. 3