Hannah Morse Fowler Hall House
The Hannah Morse Fowler Hall House is a historic residence near the unincorporated community Buchanan , Iowa , United States . It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
history
Hannah Morse Fowler Hall was a wealthy woman from Wallingford, Connecticut , whose first husband was a lawyer. She moved to the Iowa Territory with her second husband, Abram Hall, in 1845 and, in 1848, bought the property in Cass Township, Cedar County, Iowa from her own money. It was thus in her possession, not her husband's. The house was completed in the same year and demolished between 1968 and 1970. The subsequent owner Edward Rate ran a glove factory on the property.
The building
The current building was completed in 1854 in a post- and- beam construction , stylistically influenced by the then popular Greek classicism . The house consists of two interconnected rectangular wings. The northern tract is slightly higher than the southern one. The living room and study, which was also used as a bedroom, were located on the ground floor of the northern wing. The dining room, kitchen and pantry, which was later converted into a bathroom, were in the south wing. The north wing has two bedrooms and a bathroom on the upper floor. A bedroom, which was also used as a weaving room, and a room for the employees were in the south wing. The two wings were not connected to each other on the upper floor, so that each wing needed its own staircase.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the National Register of Historic Places
- ↑ United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service: National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet , archived version dated February 12, 2017, accessed on June 12, 2020.
- ^ Donald F. Stout: Hannah Morse Fowler Hall House . National Park Service . Retrieved November 25, 2015.
Coordinates: 41 ° 45 ′ 32.8 " N , 91 ° 15 ′ 13.5" W.