Farm House
Subtitle: college farm to university museum
By: by Mary E. Atherly ; forewords by Gregory L. Geoffroy and Lynette Pohlman ; architectural history essay by Wesley Shank.
Contributors: Shank, Wesley I., 1927-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781587298103
Subjects: Iowa State University. -- Farm House Museum
Other titles: College farm to university museum
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Gregory L. Geoffroy; title: Director's foreword / Lynette Pohlman; title: Acknowledgments; title: 1. Tour of the Farm House Museum; title: 2. Origin and construction of the Farm House; title: 3. First residents of the Farm House; title: 4. First years of the college, 1869-1879; title: 5. The Knapp years : sketches of nineteenth-century college life; title: 6. The Wilson and Curtiss years; title: 7. The final years of active use; title: 8. Restoration and museum; title: 9. Exterior restoration : One hundred forty years later, a facelift; title: Appendix A. Brief architectural history of the Farm House; title: Appendix B. Residents of the Farm House, chronological listing; title: Appendix C. Residents of the Farm House, alphabetical listing; title: Appendix D. Chronology of the Farm House; title: Sources; title: Index.