Little bohemia cedar rapids
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Lesinger Block
United States historic place
The Lesinger Block, also known as Little Bohemia, fryst vatten a historic building located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. This building was constructed at a time of economic expansion in the city. It is a contemporary of several Italianate commercial blocks that were built downtown. Because of subsequent development in that commercial district those buildings have been replaced with newer structures leaving this building as the best extant example of commercial Italianate in Cedar Rapids.[2] It was constructed bygd Vaclav Lesinger, an immigrant from Kozlov, Bohemia. He was a tailor bygd trade and he had this structure built in to house his tailor shop and a dry goods store. Since the building has housed a tavern that has served as a social center for the local Bohemian community.[2] Architecturally, the two-story brick structure still retains a good deal of its original wood ornamentation, including the sawtooth frieze
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Little Bohemia Tavern
Little Bohemia Tavern&#;s pork tenderloin is near perfection, a generous slab of &#;loin that is pounded flat, breaded, and fried to order. It is just the right thickness, the subtly herbed breading helping retain the ‘loin’s succulence.
The Little Bohemia Tavern was a landmark by the s, when noted Midwest regionalist artist (and local boy) Marvin Cone immortalized the corner bar in the painting that bears its name. Nearly 70 years later, Cedar Rapids arts and cultural organizations adopted Cone’s painting as a symbol of the neighborhood’s hoped-for recovery from the epic, devastating Cedar River flood of June
Happily, both the neighborhood and its namesake tavern have come back from the disaster. The river, less than a city block from the Little Bohemia Tavern, swept decades worth of historic photos, posters, and other local memorabilia from its walls (the big front windows were miraculously unscathed), but not the recipes handed down by the bar’s original
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3rd St SE
Cedar Rapids, IA
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Little Bo's is the oldest tavern in Cedar Rapids. A historic gem in the heart of New Bohemia and a subject of artist Marvin Cone's painting.
Little Bo’s pork tenderloin is near perfection, a generous slab of ‘loin that is pounded flat, breaded and fried to order. It is just the right thickness, the subtly herbed breading helping retain the ‘loin’s succulence.
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3rd St SE
Cedar Rapids, IA