Union Block
Mount Pleasant, United States
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Built in 1861 by William McCandless, the Union Block in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, is a Renaissance Revival structure that served as offices and courthouse space while housing the Union Hall opera house on its third floor. The building holds historical significance as the site where Arabella A. Mansfield became the first woman licensed to practice law in the United States in 1869. Its third-floor hall functioned as a community gathering place where prominent speakers including Frederick Douglass, Bronson Alcott, and Anna Dickinson addressed audiences on women's rights and civil rights. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places, though it suffered severe damage from a fire in January 2011.
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- building
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- National Register of Historic Places listed place
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- Mount Pleasant, United States
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