Farm House : college farm to university museum
Title:
Farm House : college farm to university museum
JLCTITLE245:
Mary E. Atherly ; forewords by Gregory L. Geoffroy and Lynette L. Pohlman ; architectural history essay by Wesley Shank.
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Publication Information:
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2009.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) : illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9781587298875
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Abstract:
Now available for the first time in paperback, Farm House tells the story of the first structure built on the Iowa State University campus. Mary Atherly provides a comprehensive history of the Farm House from its founding days to its role as the center of activity for the new college to its second life as a welcoming museum visited by thousands each year. Construction on the little red brick house on the prairie began in 1860, two years after the state legislature passed a measure providing for the establishment of the State Agricultural College and Model Farm. In the 1860's, as the only.
Local Note:
UAF Rasmuson Library Ebook Central subscription access.
UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Variant Title:
Portion of title: College farm to university museum
Contents:
Foreword / Gregory L. Geoffroy -- Director's foreword / Lynette L. Pohlman -- Acknowledgments -- Tour of the Farm House Museum -- Origin and construction of the Farm House -- First residents of the Farm House -- First years of the college, 1869-1879 -- The Knapp years : sketches of nineteenth-century college life -- The Wilson and Curtiss years -- The final years of active use -- Restoration and museum -- Exterior restoration : one hundred forty years later, a facelift -- Appendix A: Brief architectural history of the Farm House -- Appendix B: Residents of the Farm House, chronological listing -- Appendix C: Residents of the Farm House, alphabetical listing -- Appendix D: Chronology of the Farm House -- Sources -- Index.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.