[2] Local businessmen formed the Lenox Hotel Company to construct a new building in its place.

The lower level commercial space housed the White Way Cafe from 1942 until it closed in 1979.

[1] The Lenox hotel is a three-story brick structure with a prominent front porch.

The porch is elevated 3.5 feet (1.1 m) above the street level, and it features a double staircase.

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