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The Warden Plaza- Fort Dodge

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This impressive building is one of the many decaying former skyscrapers in Fort Dodge, IA. The city was a boomtown of the early 1900s but now is a shell of its former self. This building has been completely abandoned for some years now, but it lives on in Cities Skylines.

Some history:

It was built between 1922 and 1924 as a component to the 1910 Wahkonsa Hotel and Annex, which was designed by the architectural firm of Liebbe, Nourse and Rasmussen of Des Moines. The Warden Plaza, however, was designed by Damon, O’Meara and Hills for Theodore G. Warden, who had purchased the lease for the Wahkonsa Hotel in 1915.

The Warden offered luxury apartments for area residents as well as hotel accommodations for travelers at the tail end of Fort Dodge’s “Golden Age” of prosperity during the early 20th century. The U-shaped, Classical base of the building is clad in stone and offered recreational spaces on the lower floors as well as an open courtyard. Apartments and hotel rooms could be found on the upper levels where the building becomes E-shaped, clad in red brick and capped by a stone cornice. -https://medium.com/iowa-history/reviving-fort-dodges-warden-plaza-fa793af61a61