Cedar Rapids Pump Company Factory and Warehouse are two historic buildings located in Cedar Rapids , Iowa , United States . The company began in 1881 . They manufactured and distributed water pumps and windmills throughout the Midwest from this facility from 1884 to 1929 . They completed the first floor of the factory building along the Chicago and North Western Railroad tracks in 1884 . The second floor was added to the building around 1894 , and in 1901 the warehouse building was completed . The Cedar Rapids Community School District used both buildings for storage from 1974 to about 2008 . The buildings were affected by a 2008 flood . The two-story brick factory building features a monitor roof , and is otherwise " purely utilitarian in appearance with no particular stylistic or decorative tendency . " The warehouse is also two-stories , constructed in brick , and lacking in ornamentation . The buildings were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012
2008 flood
Iowa flood of 2008
Cedar Rapids Pump Company Factory and Warehouse