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1836 – 1916
No carrier reached names a single nineteenth-century hotel, inn or tavern in North Liberty, and the leg refuses to invent the names. The search was run where the floor instance finds its first houses: the county histories (Howard 1907 and Chapman 1880, in the North Liberty passages reached), the 1916–17 Polk gazetteer's town entry — which lists a bank and a newspaper among the town's institutions and, in the lines reached, no hotel — the 2015 Comprehensive Plan's history chapter, and the Garner nomination's commercial inventory, whose buildings include a service garage and a speed wash but no hotel block. A railroad-junction village of five hundred with a bank and a newspaper ordinarily kept at least one commercial house; the record reached simply does not name it. The item therefore stands as this section's named gap, in the floor's own form: the hotel the record gestures at and does not document. Its settlers are the gazetteer's full hotel listings for 1884–1916 read line by line, the Sanborn maps' building labels, and the town newspaper's advertising columns. Until they are read, the town's first house is unknown — not absent, unknown, and the difference is printed deliberately.