The French Way Cleaners & Dyers
413 Euclid Avenue
Des Moines, Iowa 50313
515/243-4264

Fred A. Harris, 1916

A simple shop building enriched with details inspired by Wright’s Larkin Building. The trumpeting figures may seem a bit recherché for a dry cleaner, though scarcely more so than Sullivan’s griffins flanking the entrance of his Grinnell bank.

References
• Gebhard, David, and Mansheim, Gerald: Buildings of Iowa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, p. 211.