Question: Hotel Lester-Lester Cafe, also known as the Dodge House-Long Branch, is a historic building located in Mason City, Iowa, in which country, it was built as a two-story building a block away from the passenger and freight depots of the Chicago and North Western Railroad and the Chicago Great Western Railway?

Context articles: Illinois Central Passenger Depot-Storm Lake
Hotel Lester-Lester Cafe
Chicago and North Western Transportation Company
Iowa Traction Railway
Horace G. Burt
First National Bank of Mason City
Bank of Sumner
Sac City Chicago and North Western Depot
Minburn Railroad Depot
Hotel Mealey

The Illinois Central Passenger Depot-Storm Lake, also known as the Storm Lake Depot, was an historic building located in Storm Lake, Iowa, United States.
 The Iowa Falls & Sioux City Railroad, an Illinois Central Railroad (IC) subsidiary, built the first tracks through town in 1870.
 They also built a two-story frame combination freight and passenger depot the same year.
 The present depot is a second generation IC structure built of brick.
 The building's architectural style is Prairie School with Tudor Revival elements in the dormer and canopy ends.
 It was designed by IC architect E.E. Bihl, and it is similar to the railroad's depots in Flossmoor, Illinois and Fort Dodge, Iowa.
 The new passenger depot was completed in August, 1915, and the old depot was re-purposed for a dedicated freight depot.
 It was torn down sometime before 1948.
 Passenger service remained high during the 1910s and 1920s, with the decline accelerating after World War II, and it ended all together in the late 1960s.
 While freight trains continue to use the IC's tracks, the depot has been abandoned.
 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
 The Storm Lake Illinois Central depot was demolished on February 25, 2013.
Hotel Lester-Lester Cafe, also known as the Dodge House-Long Branch, is a historic building located in Mason City, Iowa, United States.
 Its construction, completed in 1915, was a project undertaken by local real estate developer Meir Wolf.
 It was built as a two-story building a block away from the passenger and freight depots of the Chicago and North Western Railroad and the Chicago Great Western Railway.
 The building was meant to be used as a railroad hotel so passengers and rail employees would not have to travel the six to eight blocks to the hotels downtown.
 It is the only remaining railroad hotel left in Mason City.
 Hotel guests stayed in the 29 rooms on the second floor, and three commercial spaces on the first floor were occupied by a variety of restaurants, grocery stores and barbershops.
 Its most famous guest was track star Jesse Owens, who was in town in December 1937 for a basketball exhibition.
 He could not stay at the other hotel's in town because of his race.
 In 1975 the hotel's name was changed to the Dodge House and the Long Branch Saloon occupied the space that had previously housed a cafe.
 By that time it was largely used as a rooming house, and it was used to house the homeless.
 The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
The Chicago and North Western Transportation Company (reporting mark CNW) was a Class I railroad in the Midwestern United States.
 It was also known as the North Western.
 The railroad operated more than 5,000 miles (8,000 km) of track as of the turn of the 20th century, and over 12,000 miles (19,000 km) of track in seven states before retrenchment in the late 1970s.
 Until 1972, when the company was sold to its employees, it was named the Chicago and North Western Railway (or Chicago and North Western Railway Company).
The Iowa Traction Railway Company (reporting mark IATR) , formerly the Iowa Traction Railroad Company, is an electrically operated common carrier railroad running between Mason City and Clear Lake, Iowa, United States, and also serving Rorick Park near Mason City.
 It can trace its roots back to the Mason City and Clear Lake Railway, which was founded in 1896.
 The shops were situated in Emery, the midpoint between the two namesake towns.
 Passenger service began on July 4, 1897.
 Freight has been the major source of income since the beginning and has been the only source since the charter for trolley service in Mason City expired August 30, 1936.
 The Mason City and Clear Lake Railway's name was revised slightly to Mason City and Clear Lake Railroad in 1950, when new owners took over.
Horace Greeley Burt (Jan 1849 – May 19, 1913) was President of Union Pacific Railroad from 1898 until 1904.
 He was born in Terre Haute, Indiana.
 He began his Railway service in 1868 with Chicago and North Western Railway as a resident engineer from 1873 until 1881.
 He was Division superintendent from 1881 until 1887, Chief engineer from August 1887 until November 1888.
 He was General Manager of Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad from 1888 until 1896.
 He was general manager of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad from July until October 1896.
 He was 3rd Vice president of Chicago and North Western Railway from 1896 until 1898.
 He traveled around the world from 1904 until 1905.
 He was receiver of Chicago Great Western Railway from January until September 1909.
 In 1911 he was chief engineer of commission of investigation smoke abatement and electrification of railway terminals.
 He died in Oak Park, Illinois and is buried in Highland Lawn Cemetery in Terre Haute.
The First National Bank of Mason City, also known as Norwest Bank Building and City Center of Mason City, is a historic building located in Mason City, Iowa, United States.
 It was designed by the Des Moines architectural firm of Liebbe, Nourse & Rasmussen, and it was the only Mason City commission for this firm.
 Completed in 1911, it was constructed by C.E. Atkinson of Webster City, Iowa who had built several other H.F. Liebbe designs.
 The 6½-story building follows the Early Commercial style.
 It features modestly decorated main floor and attic level with five floors of rather plain brick construction in between.
 The bank occupied most of the first floor and some of the office space above, while the other office space was taken up by professional offices.
 By the 1960s the bank occupied the whole building.
 John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, John Hamilton and Tommy Carroll robbed the bank on March 13,1934 and stole about $50,000.
 Dillinger was wounded in an exchange of gunfire during the heist.
 The building to the north of the bank was torn down in 1982 and a two-story annex to the bank replaced it.
 The bank building was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, and as a contributing property in the Mason City Downtown Historic District in 2005.
 City Center of Mason City Inc. bought the building in 1995, and remodeled it into apartments and offices.
The Bank of Sumner, also known as the Clock Tower building and the S.F. Cass building, is a historic building located in Sumner, Iowa, United States.
 Stephen F. Cass had established a stagecoach-stop general store two miles northeast of where Chancey Carpenter had platted the town of Sumner.
 Carpenter had given a strip of land to the Iowa Pacific Rail Company, later the Chicago Great Western Railway, which built their tracks and a depot in town.
 Cass moved his operations to Sumner, and in 1879 or 1880 went into banking.
 He built a frame building for his bank at the same location as this building.
 This building replaced it in 1897, and over the next three years Cass built several other brick commercial buildings on the same block.
 Cass died in 1900, and the bank failed in 1931 during the Great Depression.
 The post office moved out in 1933.
 A bakery occupied the building for several decades.
The Sac City Chicago and North Western Depot is a historic building located in Sac City, Iowa, United States.
 The city was platted in 1855, and soon after they began to campaign for a rail line into the town.
 It took 23 years before the railroad arrived.
 The Maple River Railroad was the first to lay tracks in Sac County in 1877, but it went to Wall Lake rather than Sac City.
 The Sac City & Wall Lake Railroad was formed that year and the tracks were laid between the two towns in 1878.
 The Chicago & North Western Railroad acquired the line in 1884, and built a two-story frame depot in Sac City.
 The business district grew up around the depot.
 In 1916 the Chicago & North Western replaced the frame depot with this single story brick depot a block to the south.
 It was a combination depot, passenger and freight, that utilized Chicago & North Western's Number One standard plan.
Minburn Railroad Depot is a historic building located in Minburn, Iowa, United States.
 The Des Moines Valley Railroad laid tracks from Des Moines to Fort Dodge in 1869, and the town was established the same year.
 A frame building was built for a depot.
 The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad leased the line in the 1890s, and the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway took over the line in 1906.
 The old depot was destroyed by fire and this brick structure replaced it in 1914.
 The last passenger train left the depot on April 19, 1959.
 The Chicago and North Western Railway acquired the line in 1960, and the last freight train used the depot the following year.
 A restoration process for the depot began in 2007, and it was relocated a short distance from its original location to a new location along the Raccoon River Valley Trail.
 It houses a cafe and restrooms for those who use the trail, which is the old railroad right-of-way.
 The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
Hotel Mealey, also known as Hotel Iowan, is a historic building located in Oelwein, Iowa, United States.
 The Chicago Great Western Railway reached Oelwein in 1887, and beginning in 1893 they started to expand their operations in the city.
 Because they moved their shops here, Oelwein experienced a building boom, including this hotel.
 St. Paul businessman Michael Mealey, whose son James was a local merchant, was responsible for organizing the hotel.
 The Chicago architectural firm of Marvel & DeMoney designed the building, and Thomas Fitzpatrick of St. Paul was the contractor.
 The first three floors of the brick structure were completed in 1898, and the top floor was added in 1916.
 The Boss hotel chain operated the hotel from 1920 to 1969.
 The hotel's fortunes began to change in 1964 when the Chicago Great Western and the Chicago and North Western Railroad began a merger, and operations in Oelwein were diminished over time.
 A major ongoing hotel lease was canceled in 1980 that resulted in the hotel's demise.
 It was last known as the Hotel Iowan.
 The building was converted into residential use.
 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.