Elevation of Washington, IA, USA

South Side Drugs

The birthday train in heritage regalia - Ottumwa, Iowa

The happy visionary

Forty-three candles make a lovely light!

Ottumwa, IA - 300-Block of East Main - North Side Composite

Eldon, Iowa, American Gothic House

Upstairs Downtown - Ottumwa IA

No more "passing through"

Upstairs Downtown - Ottumwa IA

Main Street West From Market Street - Ottumwa, Iowa

storage/flower room, former Johnson Funeral Chapel - Ottumwa, Iowa

American Gothic

Ottumwa, Iowa, John Morrell Meat Packing Plant, Aerial View

US 34-63 roundabout (5)

Ottumwa iowa View from California Zephyr

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David Lynch Weekend

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Street View of the American Gothic House

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Bridge View Center

Here in 2020 were a 19th-century commercial building and a 1989 Mercury Grand Marquis.

The building has steeply-pitched gables and was built in 1930 in the "English Cottage" style. In this picture it was a law office but it used to be a gas station.

Ah the Des Moines River, moving its water toward the Mississippi River. Ah the Jefferson Street Viaduct, built in 1936.

A 2017 Chevy Impala was seen waiting at a stoplight, amid the Main Street streetscape of downtown Ottumwa, Iowa, in the late-October gloom of October 2020.

"Hang the banner above the hole": We are 641 strong.

The people of Ottumwa, Iowa, have redesigned the Des Moines River to match their quirky specifications.

Here were a 48-year-old bridge and the Des Moines River, during a time of low water.

Planters of dirt were sidewalk beautifications in downtown Ottumwa.

Ottumwa Iowa good backalley downtown.

In downtown Ottumwa a lineup of utility poles was an occasion for a showy spectacle of five sets of double guywires with orange plastic covers.

My door, my light, my downspout.

Somebody's front porch as viewed from their front yard.

"We're going to college!" the Ottumwa locals like to wisecrack re College Street.

A lobby!, a neomansard!, erected 1977.

May we interview the paint color decider please.

Good-looking 20th century building, attached to the backs of older buildings.

Ridiculous building of surveillance cameras in smalltown Iowa.

Here were yellow bricks from circa 1950 and window awnings from circa 2020, at the former Medical Arts Building in Ottumwa, Iowa.

The view across the Des Moines River toward downtown Ottumwa is well-known to most Iowans.

Business sign of big McCarroll Bros and little Keefe Bros: a tile mosaic in white and olive green.

Among a railroad-industrial setting in smalltown Iowa, a vacant lot's clump of tall weedy trees is seen to inhabit a late-October gloom.

Central Air, No Heat

Gothic Impersonator

American Gothic House

Tom Arnold and Roseanne Barr's Iowa House

Rural IA

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