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The middle section of 71 Jefferson has housed a bakery, drug stores, a pool hall, a dry cleaner, an engineering firm, and restaurants, including the Black and White Restaurant and the China Cafe. In earlier years, the second floor served as an apartment. A skylight in the roof provided natural light to the middle of the building before electricity, and many buildings around the square originally had skylights. Electric lights were first turned on in November, 1889, on Winterset's town square.
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Winterset, Iowa · United States
