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Carroll Alsop House) is a historic house located at 1907 A Avenue East in
Oskaloosa, Iowa Oskaloosa is a city in, and the county seat of, Mahaska County, Iowa, United States. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Oskaloosa was a national center of bituminous coal mining. The population was 11,558 in the 2020 U.S. Cens ...
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Description and history

It is one of seven
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designed
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houses located in
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, and one of two that were constructed in Oskaloosa. Both were completed in 1951. This house is an L-plan, unless you count the carport, which makes it a T-plan. It was a custom-built house that embodied the ideals of "free and simple living, in touch with nature, for the family of moderate means." The house was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
on November 9, 1988.


See also

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List of Frank Lloyd Wright works Frank Lloyd Wright designed over 425 houses, commercial buildings and other works. "The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright" is a UNESCO World Heritage Site consisting of a selection of eight buildings across the United States designe ...


References

* Storrer, William Allin. ''The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion''. University Of Chicago Press, 2006, (S.304)


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Frank Lloyd Wright's Carroll Alsop House in Oskaloosa, Iowa
Houses completed in 1951 Frank Lloyd Wright buildings Houses in Mahaska County, Iowa Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa National Register of Historic Places in Mahaska County, Iowa Oskaloosa, Iowa Modernist architecture in Iowa {{Iowa-struct-stub