McClellan's General Store is a historic structure located in

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. James and Adeline McClellan moved to Henry County in 1856. He bought the lot for $365 in 1867 and had the building built for a mercantile business that he founded the same year. It was the first building constructed in the simplified

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style in town He added dry goods to his store in 1875 and the business was renamed McClellan and Stottard Dry Goods Store at about the same time. The McClellan family used the second floor as their residence for several years The building was listed on the

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in 2003.

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Commercial buildings completed in 1867 Italianate architecture in Iowa New London, Iowa Buildings and structures in Henry County, Iowa National Register of Historic Places in Henry County, Iowa Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa 1867 establishments in Iowa {{Iowa-struct-stub