Witwer Grocery Company Building


Witwer Grocery Company Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


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Location	905 3rd St., SE Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Coordinates	41°58′21″N 91°39′38″W / 41.97250°N 91.66056°W / 41.97250; -91.66056
Area	less than one acre
Built	1946
Architect	Blahnik & Berger
MPS	Commercial & Industrial Development of Cedar Rapids MPS
NRHP reference No.	98000386^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 1, 1998

The Witwer Grocery Company Building, also known as the Osada Building or more recently as the Bottleworks Loft Condominiums, is a historic structure located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. The building served as the grocery warehouse for the Witwer Grocery Company, a local Cedar Rapids grocer which included MeToo stores from 1946 to 1965 and had a bottling facility for Life Cola and Hires Root Beer on the first floor. The building is five stories tall and rises 55 feet (17 m) above the ground.^[2] It was designed by the architectural firm of Blahnik & Berger and was completed in 1946. The building was extensively renovated from 1996 to 1997 into apartments. A full height atrium was created in the buildings core.^[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998, and is part of the Commercial & Industrial Development of Cedar Rapids MPS.^[1] The Osada complex closed in 2007 and was remodeled into Bottleworks Loft Condominiums post-2008 flood.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ ^a ^b "Osada Building". Emporis. Archived from the original on April 9, 2013. Retrieved 2012-01-29.

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