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| Location | 935 E. College Iowa City, Iowa |
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| Coordinates | 41°39′31″N91°31′17.2″W / 41.65861°N 91.521444°W /41.65861; -91.521444 |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1893 |
| Architect | George F. Barber and Co. |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne |
| NRHP reference No. | 77000529[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 2, 1977 |
TheLindsay House is a historic building located inIowa City, Iowa, United States. It was listed, misspelled as theLinsay House, on theNational Register of Historic Places in 1977.[1] The house was built in 1893 by John Jayne, an Iowa City bridge builder. The plans for the 2½-story, frame,Queen Anne were purchased fromGeorge F. Barber and Co.[2] It features a chimney that takes up an entire corner of the mainfacade, a stone arch that surrounds the first-floor window with leaded glass in a sunflower pattern, a wrap-around porch with a corner turret, and a three-story octagonal tower behind it.
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. It was theTheta Xi fraternity Xi chapter house from 1914[3]-1915.[4] The house was subsequently divided into apartments, and in 2005 became a 10-bedroom unit of the River City Housing Collective.[5][6]
Berkeley Breathed, who wrote thecomic stripBloom County, 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".[5] Breathed used the house as the model for theboarding house whereBloom County is partially set.[7]
