Rumely Lofts (Des Moines Drug Company)

110 S.W. Fourth Street

Built in 1903

Designed by Des Moines architects Hallett & Rawson

For the M. Rumely Company (a manufacturer of threshing equipment which was based in LaPorte, Indiana)

NRHP 1989

Brick warehouse in the Chicago Style; arrangement of east and north elevations is similar to Henry Hobson Richardson’s Marshall Field Wholesale Store (1885) with first floor base and windows on second, third and fourth floors grouped within a three-story arch

Purchased in 1911 by the Des Moines Drug Company which added top 2 floors c. 1912

They actually removed the brick cornice to build the 2 floors

The drug company also outfitted the interior with a spiral, gravity operated conveyor linking the 6th to 1st floors

The Des Moines Drug Company was a wholesale pharmaceutical distributor.

2009-2010 Sherman Associates redeveloped the building as 66 – 1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments at a cost of $17.4 million.