Iowa's most famous home – with apologies to gubernatorial mansion Terrace Hill and the gruesomely infamous Villisca Axe Murder House – is vacant again for the first time in four years. The American ...

On an unassuming street in Eldon, Iowa — population 785 — a little white house that inspired one of the world’s most famous paintings sits on a grassy lawn. Built in the 1880s by a local family, the ...

When I was in high school in Huntsville, Ala., in the 1980s, groups often held events and dances at the Steamboat Gothic House. As a teen, I always pictured some sort of boat-shaped house with pointed ...

The world's most famous house no longer is a home. Starting in April, the public is invited to step inside the unoccupied American Gothic House in Eldon, Ia. This is the first time the state-owned ...

Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Robert Bork, a professor of art history at the University of Iowa and a specialist in the study of Gothic architecture, was working in his office when a student knocked on ...

The Gothic mansion overlooking Biscayne Bay isn’t something you expect to see in gleaming, modern Miami, even in Coconut Grove, the oldest neighborhood in the city. “This is a magnificent example of a ...

on the edge of the small town of Eldin atop one of the general rolling hills of southeast Iowa. There is a simple white house. It is a most unremarkable little home except for a single Gothic style ...