Poplar, Iowa

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Poplar, Iowa.

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There's No Place Like Home

This Victorian home west of Poplar, Iowa, was built for Andrew M. Petersen in 1905 by carpenters Carl V. Andersen, a Danish immigrant, and James Barmington, of Jacksonville. Their house designs utilized elaborate scrollwork and decorative shingle siding, and often featured large open two-story front porches.