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Coming EVENTS

Main Street National Conference In Chicago

May 13-14

State-wide Historic Preservation/MSI Workshop

May 16

Upstairs/ Downtown Second Story Tour

June 14-18

Main Street Iowa Resource Visit

July 23

Ragbri Overnight in Ottumwa

February 2009 Volume Nine

OTTUMWA Downtown RENOVATION Continues to move forward

Contractors build the canopy on the 2nd Street main entrance of the Hotel Ottumwa

115 E. Main Street

Ottumwa, Iowa

Phone: 641-684-5130 E-mail: cwoodbury@mainstreet ottumwa.com

Web Site: www.mainstreetottum wa.com

Main Street Ottumwa chosen to host the May CLG/IHPC/ MSI WorkshopOn May 13-14 approximately 225 visitors will visit Ottumwa to participate in a 2 day workshop focusing on “Preservation in Progress.”. Holding workshops on general preservation principles and planning, grant writing, “History Threatened and how to stop it”, there will be well know state and national speakers, facilitators and participants. Local historians Molly Myers Naumann, Fred Zesiger, Main Street Ottumwa volunteers and others will plan and host this outstanding opportunity to showcase Ottumwa’s historic downtown. Meetings will be held in the Hotel Ottumwa, City Hall and our Public Library.

Historic Ottumwa Photos