The Phil Hoffman House is a house at 807 High 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 ...

. It was added to the

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in 1991. It was originally built in 1920 by Phil Hoffman, publisher of the ''Oskaloosa Herald''. The

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was Frank E. Wetherell, who designed several other notable structures in and around Oskaloosa, including the

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located in the center of the town square. Wetherell was prominent statewide as an architect known for public buildings, residences, and urban planning. At least 44 extant properties in Oskaloosa are attributed to Wetherell.

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