The George H. Gallup House built in 1901 is an historic
octagonal house located at 703 South Chestnut Street in
Jefferson, Iowa, United States. It was the birthplace and boyhood home of Dr.
George Horace Gallup
George Horace Gallup (November 18, 1901 – July 26, 1984) was an American pioneer of survey sampling techniques and inventor of the Gallup poll, a successful statistical method of survey sampling for measuring public opinion.
Life and career
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, the pioneer of public opinion polling. On July 18, 1985, it 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 ...
.
George H. Gallup was committed to the
octagon house
Octagon houses were a unique house style briefly popular in the 1850s in the United States and Canada. They are characterised by an octagonal (eight-sided) plan, and often feature a flat roof and a veranda all round. Their unusual shape and app ...
, having built three of them.
The first was built in 1893 on North Elm Street in Jefferson. It featured
Queen Anne detailing, and it was somewhat asymmetrical because of its porch and bay placement. He sold this house in 1899 and began building a second one. Gallup began building his third and final octagon house in 1901 and completed it the following year. It was in this house that his son George was born and raised. The 2-story frame house is built on a rubble coursed stone foundation. Its eight sides are wide and covered with
clapboard siding.
[ The house is capped with a truncated octagonal roof. It has been recently renovated and is available for rent to individuals and groups.
]
See also
* George Gallup
*Gallup & Robinson
G&R ''(formerly Gallup & Robinson)'' is an independent marketing research firm specializing in advertising research. Founded in 1948, in Princeton, New Jersey by Dr. George Gallup and Dr. Claude Robinson, the company helps advertisers develop, e ...
*The Gallup Organization
Gallup, Inc. is an American analytics and advisory company based in Washington, D.C. Founded by George Gallup in 1935, the company became known for its public opinion polls conducted worldwide. Starting in the 1980s, Gallup transitioned its bu ...
* Gallup Poll
*List of octagonal houses
This is a list of octagon houses. The style became popular in the United States and Canada following the publication of Orson Squire Fowler's 1848 book ''The Octagon House, A Home for All''. In the United States, 68 surviving octagon houses ar ...
References
External links
The Gallup House Website
Greene County Attractions
Houses completed in 1902
Jefferson, Iowa
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa
Houses in Greene County, Iowa
Octagon houses in the United States
Queen Anne architecture in Iowa
Neoclassical architecture in Iowa
Octagon houses in Iowa
National Register of Historic Places in Greene County, Iowa
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