Hawthorne Glove and Novelty Company–Shrader Drug Company Building

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Hawthorne Glove and Novelty Company–Shrader Drug Company Building is a historic three-story brick building in Iowa City, Iowa. Built in 1906, it sits in the city’s old railroad and industrial area along South Gilbert Street, near rail sidings used by a branch line of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway (later Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific). It replaced a building that had burned down.

By World War I, the Shrader Drug Company occupied the building, one of three drug factories on South Gilbert Street. The company later changed its name to Hewell-Shrader Drug Company in 1930 and then to Hewell-Shrader Company in 1945 after adding farm fertilizer to its products. The business closed in 1956. The building was sold to Thompson Transfer and Storage and used as a warehouse. Three years later Whipple House Furniture Store took over and stayed until 1975. Over the following decades, many different businesses used the building, and it was vacant at times in the 1980s. In the mid-1980s the basement housed the Vine Tavern, while the upper floors were used as artist studios. In 2012 the upper floors were converted into apartments.

The building occupies less than one acre. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 7, 2014, with the listing number 14000666. Address: 529 S. Gilbert St., Iowa City, IA.