The Dows Street Historic District is located in Ely, Iowa, United States.

The area exemplifies the importance the railroad and transportation in general played in the development of the town's central business district.

[2] Community members revitalized a plat of land the railroad had abandoned into a commercial and residential corridor.

[1] The Historic Ely Elevator is the only light-industrial property in the district which includes mostly small commercial buildings and residences.

This article about a property in Linn County, Iowa on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.