Hotel President (Waterloo, Iowa)


Hotel President
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


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Location	500 Sycamore St. Waterloo, Iowa
Coordinates	42°29′55″N 92°20′13.4″W / 42.49861°N 92.337056°W / 42.49861; -92.337056
Area	less than one acre
Built	1929
NRHP reference No.	10000048^[1]
Added to NRHP	April 24, 2017

The Hotel President, also known as the Park Towers Apartments, is an historic building located in downtown Waterloo, Iowa, United States. The building was completed in 1929, and it opened as a "showcase hotel."^[2] In 1948, Paul "Pinkie" George and five other wrestling promoters from the Midwest founded the National Wrestling Alliance in the hotel. The manager of the hotel at the time was Lark Gable, the grandfather of Olympic gold medal winner Dan Gable.^[3] Various companies owned and operated the hotel until it was acquired in 1968 by Elders Inc., a nonprofit group of churches. They converted the building into subsidized housing. It was bought by local developers Brent Dahlstrom and Jim Sulentic in 2011 and they sold it to Huntley Witmer Development of Los Angeles. Huntley Witmer spent $12 million in 2015 renovating the building that continues to house 84 units of federally subsidized housing.^[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.^[1]

References

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^ ^a ^b "National Register of Historic Places Program: Weekly List". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-11-13.
^ ^a ^b Pat Kinney (November 27, 2015). "Looking Presidential: Waterloo hotel renovation nears completion". The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier. Waterloo-Cedar Falls. Retrieved 2017-11-13.
^ Pat Kinney (November 27, 2015). "The President and Wrestling". The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier. Waterloo-Cedar Falls. Retrieved 2017-11-13.

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v t e National Register of Historic Places in Black Hawk County, Iowa
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Waterloo	Bennington No. 4 Black Hawk County Soldiers Memorial Hall Campbell Baking Company Chicago Great Western Railroad-Waterloo Freight Depot Dunsmore House Emerson School Fire Station No. 2 The Fowler Company Building Grace Methodist Episcopal Church Highland Historic District Hotel President Hotel Russell-Lamson Marsh-Place Building Master Service Station Overland Waterloo Company Building Rath Packing Company Administration Building Roosevelt Elementary School Rensselaer Russell House Snowden House Walnut Street Baptist Church Walnut Street Historic District Waterloo East Commercial Historic District Waterloo West Commercial Historic District Waterloo Masonic Temple Waterloo Public Library (West Branch) Waterloo Public Library-East Side Branch Henry Weis House Whittier School YMCA Building
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Black Hawk County, Iowa and List of National Historic Landmarks in Iowa

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