Linsay House
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| Location | 935 E. College, Iowa City, Iowa |
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| Coordinates | 41°39′27″N 91°31′17″W / 41.65750°N 91.52139°W |
| Built | 1893 |
| Architect | George F. Barber and Co. |
| Architectural style | neo-Jacobean |
| NRHP reference No. | 77000529 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 2, 1977 |
The Lindsay House is a house in Iowa City listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is perhaps most famous as the model for the Bloom County boarding house.[2] Currently, it is run as a not-for-profit cooperative by the River City Housing Collective.[3]
The house was built in 1893 by John Jayne, an Iowa City bridge builder. Jayne gave the house as a wedding gift to his daughter, Ella, and her husband, John Granger Lindsay. The Lindsays moved to Chicago in 1913. The house was subsequently divided into apartments, and in 2005 became a 10-bedroom unit of the River City Housing Collective.[4]
Berkeley Breathed, writer of the comic strip Bloom County, which is partially set in the house, called the house one of “the ugliest houses in the five-state area... Six different architectural styles in one house is a milestone at least and at most a landmark to bad taste”.[4]
See also
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ Holden, Greg, The Booklover's Guide to the Midwest: A Literary Tour, Clerisy Press, p. 113
- ^ River City Housing Collective, http://www.rchc.coop
- ^ a b Langton, Diane (January 26, 2015). "Time Machine: Bloom County House". Cedar Rapids Gazette. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
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