The Newell A. Whiting House is a historic building located in
Onawa, Iowa, United States. Whiting was a hardware merchant and sawmill owner, who built this house for his second wife.
It is a simple, yet fairly pure, an example of the
Italianate style constructed in the mid-19th century.
[ with ] The -story brick house features bracketed
eaves, wall
dormer
A dormer is a roofed structure, often containing a window, that projects vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof. A dormer window (also called ''dormer'') is a form of roof window.
Dormers are commonly used to increase the usable space ...
s, tall, narrow windows with metal hood moldings, bay windows on the main floor, and alongside porch on the east elevation. It is capped with a
hip roof and a
cupola. The house was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
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References
Houses completed in 1882
Italianate architecture in Iowa
Onawa, Iowa
Buildings and structures in Monona County, Iowa
National Register of Historic Places in Monona County, Iowa
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa
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