The Prairie School Traveler (original) (raw)

House520 40th Street
Des Moines, Iowa 50312-3500

Architect unknown, c. 1915

A brick residence whose stately proportions and balanced composition owe something to Wright’s Winslow House.

A two-storey porch, for living on the first floor and sleeping on the second; the windows have wooden muntins.

References • Gebhard, David, and Mansheim, Gerald: Buildings of Iowa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, p. 221.