Linsay House

{{short description|Historic house in Iowa, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP | name =Lindsay House

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| image = 935 College St., built in 1893.jpeg

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| location = 935 E. College
Iowa City, Iowa

| coordinates = {{coord|41|39|31|N|91|31|17.2|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Iowa#USA

| area = less than one acre

| built = 1893

| architect = George F. Barber and Co.

| architecture = Queen Anne

| added = August 2, 1977

| refnum = 77000529{{NRISref|2008a}}

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The Lindsay House is a historic building located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It was listed, misspelled as the Linsay House, on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The house was built in 1893 by John Jayne, an Iowa City bridge builder. The plans for the 2½-story, frame, Queen Anne were purchased from George F. Barber and Co.{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=77000529}}|title=Linsay House|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=2017-05-22|author=James R. Juilfs}} with {{NRHP url|id=77000529|photos=y|title=photo(s)}} It features a chimney that takes up an entire corner of the main facade, a stone arch that surrounds the first-floor window with leaded glass in a sunflower pattern, a wrap-around porch with a corner turret, and a three-story octagonal tower behind it.

Jayne gave the house as a wedding gift to his daughter, Ella, and her husband, John Granger Lindsay. The Lindsays moved to Chicago in 1913. It was the Theta Xi fraternity Xi chapter house from 1914{{Cite web |title=University of Iowa Hawkeye yearbook, 1914 |url=https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3Ayrbks1_14254#page/248/mode/2up }}-1915.{{Cite web |title=University of Iowa Hawkeye yearbook, 1915 |url=https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3Ayrbks1_14835#page/280/mode/2up }} The house was subsequently divided into apartments, and in 2005 became a 10-bedroom unit of the River City Housing Collective.{{cite news|last1=Langton|first1=Diane|title=Time Machine: Bloom County House|url=http://thegazette.com/subject/news/time-machine-bloom-county-house-20150126|accessdate=2015-03-26|work=The Gazette|date=January 26, 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/rivercityhousingcollective/houses/bloom-county-house|title=Bloom County House|publisher=River City Housing Collective|accessdate=2017-05-22|author=}}

Berkeley Breathed, who wrote the comic strip Bloom County, called the house one of "the ugliest houses in the five-state area... Six different architectural styles in one house is a milestone at least and at most a landmark to bad taste". Breathed used the house as the model for the boarding house where Bloom County is partially set.{{citation|last=Holden|first=Greg|title=The Booklover's Guide to the Midwest: A Literary Tour|page=113 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ItuQdL22RKgC&dq=linsay+house+bloom+county&pg=PA113|publisher=Clerisy Press}}