Linsay House
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Linsay-Lake House
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| Location | 935 E. College, Iowa City, Iowa |
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| Built | 1893 |
| Architect | George F. Barber and Co. |
| Architectural style | neo-Jacobean |
| NRHP Reference # | 77000529 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 2, 1977 |
The Linsay House (correctly known as the Lindsay-Lake 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 gifted the home 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]
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