Farm House : college farm to university museum / Mary E. Atherly ; forewords by Gregory L. Geoffroy and Lynette Pohlman ; architectural history essay by Wesley Shank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atherly, Mary E.

Contributor:

Shank, Wesley I., 1927-

Series:

Bur oak book.

A Bur oak book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--Iowa.

Universities and colleges.

Iowa State University. Farm House Museum.

Iowa State University.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

2nd ed.

Other Title:

College farm to university museum

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781587298875

1587298872

OCLC:

503172310