Main entry:

Drury, John, 1898-1972, author.

Title & Author:

Historic Midwest houses / by John Drury.

Publication:

Minneapolis : The University of Minnesota Press, [1947]
©1947

Description:

x, 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Notes:
Ohio. Cradle of the Midwest : Rufus Putnam House, Marietta ; Queen City Showplace : The Taft Museum, Cincinnati ; At Lawnfield : James A. Garfield House, Mentor ; A nation's schoolroom : William Holmes McGuffey House, Oxford ; House by the river : Benjamin Harrison House, Near Cincinnati ; In the firelands : Thomas A. Edison birthplace, Milan ; Speigel Grove : Rutherford B. Hayes House, Fremont ; A literary shrine : Paul Laurence Dunbar House, Dayton -- Indiana. The White House of the West : William Henry Harrison residence, Vincennes ; Under the golden rain trees : Rapp-Maclure House, New Harmony ; Grand Central Station : Levi Coffin House, Fountain City ; Hoosier birthplace : Edward Eggleston's boyhood home, Vevay ; Greek Revival masterpiece : James F. D. Lanier House, Madison ; Poet's home : William Vaughn Moody's boyhood home, New Albany ; The house in Lockerbie Street : James Whitcomb Riley House, Indianapolis ; Shrine for labor : Eugene V. Debs House, Terre Haute -- Illinois. Oldest Midwest house : Jean Baptiste Saucier House, Cahokia. ; French Colonial residence : Pierre Ménard House, Kaskaskia ; Here lived Lincoln : Abraham Lincoln House, Springfield ; The Mansion House : Joseph Smith House, Nauvoo ; Gift to the general : Ulysses S. Grant House, Galena ; Rest cottage : Frances E. Willard House, Evanston ; Home of the merchant prince : Marshall Field House, Chicago ; Cottage by the railroad shops : Carl Sandburg Cottage, Galesburg ; An old new house : Frank Lloyd Wright House, Oak Park -- Missouri. Home of a commandant : Jean Baptiste Vallé House, St. Genevieve ; Last haven of a frontiersman : Daniel Boone House, Near Defiance ; The old home place : Jesse James House, Near Excelsior Springs ; Where Tom Sawyer lived : Mark Twain House, Hannibal ; Nursery of the children's poet : Eugene Field birthplace, St. Louis ; Period piece : Robert Campbell House, St. Louis ; Bullet-scarred memorial : William O. Anderson House, Lexington ; Prelude to West Point : John J. Pershing House, Laclede ; Summer White House : Gates-Wallace-Truman House, Independence -- Michigan. On the island : The Agent's House, Mackinac Island ; The house at the Soo : Henry Rowe Schoolcraft House, Sault Ste. Marie ; A Wayside Inn : Botsford Tavern, Near Detroit ; Woodlawn : Patrice Marantette House, Near Mendon ; A Michigan farmhouse : Will Carleton House, Near Hudson ; In Greenfield Village : Henry Ford birthplace, Dearborn ; On the banks of the St. Joe : Ring Lardner House, Niles -- Iowa. Log cabin parsonage : Erik Egge Cabin, Decorah ; In old Amana : Christian Metz House, Amana ; American Gothic : Grant Wood House, Iowa City ; The house on Main Street : Antonin Dvorak House, Spillville ; Beside the Mississippi : Ellis Parker Butler House, Muscatine ; A prairie home : Herbert Quick House, Near Grundy Center ; Quaker cottage : Herbert Hoover birthplace, West Branch ; Society showplace : Hoyt Sherman House, Des Moines ; Adair County farmhouse : Henry Wallace House, Near Orient -- Wisconsin. With wattle and daub : Tank Cottage, Green Bay ; Fox River Cabin : Eleazer Williams House, Near Green Bay ; At the Portage : Indian Agency House, Portage ; Villa Louis : Hercules L. Dousman House, Prairie Du Chien ; Octagon House : John Richards House, Watertown ; Executive Mansion : Governor's House, Madison ; In Durward's Glen : Bernard Durward House, Near Merrimac ; Millionaire's Mansion : Alexander Mitchell House, Milwaukee ; Middle border home : Hamlin Garland House, West Salem -- Minnesota. Fur trade capitol : Henry Hastings Sibley House, Mendota ; In Minnehaha Park : John H. Stevens House, Minneapolis ; St. Hubert's Lodge : Israel Garrard House, Frontenac ; Doctor's office : William J. Mayo birthplace, Le Sueur ; Hudson River Gothic : William G. Le Duc House, Hastings ; In a ghost town : Ignatius Donnelly House, Near Hastings ; House below the hill : Alexander Ramsey House, St. Paul ; House that flour built : John S. Pillsbury House, Minneapolis ; Home of the empire builder : James J. Hill House, St. Paul ; Shrine of the Grangers : Oliver Hudson Kelley House, Near Elk River -- Nebraska and Kansas. Cabin of a martyr : John Brown Cabin, Osawatomie, Kansas ; Scouts' rest : Buffalo Bill Cody Ranch, North Platte, Nebraska ; Arbor Lodge : J. Sterling Morton House, Nebraska City ; Crusader's cottage : Carry Nation House, Medicine Lodge, Kansas ; Editor's home : Ed Howe House, Atchison, Kansas ; Red Rocks : William Allen White House, Emporia, Kansas ; Home of the Great Commoner : William Jennings Bryan House, Lincoln, Nebraska ; In Red Cloud : Willa Cather House, Red Cloud, Nebraska ; Senator's home : George W. Norris House, Mc Cook, Nebraska ; National shrine : Dwight D. Eisenhower House, Abilene, Kansas -- North and South Dakota. On the Old River Road : Joseph Henry Taylor Cabin, Washburn, North Dakota ; Oldest in the hills : Way Cabin, Custer, South Dakota ; Frenchman's folly : Chàteau De Mores, Medora, North Dakota ; Bad Lands ranch house : Theodore Roosevelt Cabin, Bismarck, North Dakota ; The governor's mansion : Asa Fisher House, Bismarck, North Dakota ; East River landmark : Arthur C. Mellette House, Watertown, South Dakota ; Twelve Mile Ranch : Joseph Heumphreus House, Near Custer, South Dakota ; Home of the Deadwood Dick : Richard Clarke Cabin, Near Deadwood, South Dakota.

Summary:

To collect the information and pictures of this book, Drury traveled more than ten thousand miles up and down and across mid-America. He tells about eighty-seven houses scattered through twelve states that were built before 1900, and all still standing at the time the book was originally written (1947). In doing so, he presents a sweeping and impressive panorama of Midwestern life and history.

ISBN:

0226165515
9780226165516

Subject:

Historic buildings Middle West.
Architecture, Domestic Middle West.
Architecture, Domestic.
Historic buildings.
United States.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 136319
Call No.: 574; ID:86-B8844
Status: Available

Location: Library main 136320
Call No.: 2421; ID:86-B8844
Status: Available