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Mural by Carl Homstad on a streetcorner in Decorah, Iowa, depicting Water Street in the late 1800s

Mural by Carl Homstad on a streetcorner in Decorah, Iowa, depicting Wa...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. At first glance, the fellow in the street seems to look like a modern-day skateboarder, but he's a photographer of that era. At a corn... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Vintage bandstand, built as a war memorial after World War I, in Spillville, Iowa. Note the names of "Great War" battles engraved on the gazebo

Vintage bandstand, built as a war memorial after World War I, in Spill...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Michael Bergan, in a traditional Norwegian "tuxedo" of sorts, worn for various celebratory occasions, displays exhibit objects at Vesterheim, the Norwegian-American museum and heritage center in Decorah, Iowa

Michael Bergan, in a traditional Norwegian "tuxedo" of sorts, worn for...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum displays more than 33,000 Norwegian and Norwegian-American artifacts, includes 12 historic buildings, a folk-art School, an... More

City Stone Mill, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

City Stone Mill, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS IA-30-11 Building/structure dates: 1913 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1924 Subsequent Work

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), Frankville, Winneshiek County, IA

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), F...

Significance: The wrought-iron Eureka Bridge is an example of the bowstring bridge, called bowstring truss or iron arch in the nineteenth century. Bowstring bridges were widely built in Iowa in the period 1860... More

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), Frankville, Winneshiek County, IA

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), F...

Significance: The wrought-iron Eureka Bridge is an example of the bowstring bridge, called bowstring truss or iron arch in the nineteenth century. Bowstring bridges were widely built in Iowa in the period 1860... More

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), Frankville, Winneshiek County, IA

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), F...

Significance: The wrought-iron Eureka Bridge is an example of the bowstring bridge, called bowstring truss or iron arch in the nineteenth century. Bowstring bridges were widely built in Iowa in the period 1860... More

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), Frankville, Winneshiek County, IA

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), F...

Significance: The wrought-iron Eureka Bridge is an example of the bowstring bridge, called bowstring truss or iron arch in the nineteenth century. Bowstring bridges were widely built in Iowa in the period 1860... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), Frankville, Winneshiek County, IA

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), F...

Significance: The wrought-iron Eureka Bridge is an example of the bowstring bridge, called bowstring truss or iron arch in the nineteenth century. Bowstring bridges were widely built in Iowa in the period 1860... More

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), Frankville, Winneshiek County, IA

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), F...

Significance: The wrought-iron Eureka Bridge is an example of the bowstring bridge, called bowstring truss or iron arch in the nineteenth century. Bowstring bridges were widely built in Iowa in the period 1860... More

W. S. Bucknell House, 210-13 Winnebago Street, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

W. S. Bucknell House, 210-13 Winnebago Street, Decorah, Winneshiek Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS IA-30-4

W. S. Bucknell House, 210-13 Winnebago Street, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

W. S. Bucknell House, 210-13 Winnebago Street, Decorah, Winneshiek Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS IA-30-4

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

A small cemetery building in the shape of a church at Saint Wenceslaus Catholic Church in Spillville, Iowa, which dates to 1860, is the oldest Czech Catholic church in the United States

A small cemetery building in the shape of a church at Saint Wenceslaus...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak composed two of his works at this church's organ while visiting Spillville in 1893. Credit li... More

St. Anthony's Chapel, Old Mission Vicinity, Festina, Winneshiek County, IA

St. Anthony's Chapel, Old Mission Vicinity, Festina, Winneshiek County...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS IA-30-12

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), Frankville, Winneshiek County, IA

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), F...

Significance: The wrought-iron Eureka Bridge is an example of the bowstring bridge, called bowstring truss or iron arch in the nineteenth century. Bowstring bridges were widely built in Iowa in the period 1860... More

W. S. Bucknell House, 210-13 Winnebago Street, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

W. S. Bucknell House, 210-13 Winnebago Street, Decorah, Winneshiek Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS IA-30-4

W. S. Bucknell House, 210-13 Winnebago Street, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

W. S. Bucknell House, 210-13 Winnebago Street, Decorah, Winneshiek Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS IA-30-4

W. S. Bucknell House, 210-13 Winnebago Street, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

W. S. Bucknell House, 210-13 Winnebago Street, Decorah, Winneshiek Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS IA-30-4

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Lower Plymouth Rock Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Kendallville, Winneshiek County, IA

Lower Plymouth Rock Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Kendallville, W...

Significance: The Lower Plymouth Rock Bridge is one of the few intact examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America: the bowstring arch-truss. This pate... More

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), Frankville, Winneshiek County, IA

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), F...

Significance: The wrought-iron Eureka Bridge is an example of the bowstring bridge, called bowstring truss or iron arch in the nineteenth century. Bowstring bridges were widely built in Iowa in the period 1860... More

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), Frankville, Winneshiek County, IA

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), F...

Significance: The wrought-iron Eureka Bridge is an example of the bowstring bridge, called bowstring truss or iron arch in the nineteenth century. Bowstring bridges were widely built in Iowa in the period 1860... More

City Stone Mill, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

City Stone Mill, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS IA-30-11 Building/structure dates: 1913 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1924 Subsequent Work

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Women in traditional Norwegian clothing examine a loom at Vesterheim, the Norwegian-American museum and heritage center in Decorah, Iowa

Women in traditional Norwegian clothing examine a loom at Vesterheim, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum displays more than 33,000 Norwegian and Norwegian-American artifacts, includes 12 historic buildings, a folk-art School, an... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

People in traditional Norwegian clothing gather gather outside an 1879 Norwegian parochial school building at Vesterheim, the Norwegian-American museum and heritage center in Decorah, Iowa

People in traditional Norwegian clothing gather gather outside an 1879...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum displays more than 33,000 Norwegian and Norwegian-American artifacts, includes 12 historic buildings, a folk-art School, an... More

Artist Carl Homstad's mural depicting the town's early agrarian days in Spillville, Iowa

Artist Carl Homstad's mural depicting the town's early agrarian days i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), Frankville, Winneshiek County, IA

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), F...

Significance: The wrought-iron Eureka Bridge is an example of the bowstring bridge, called bowstring truss or iron arch in the nineteenth century. Bowstring bridges were widely built in Iowa in the period 1860... More

City Stone Mill, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

City Stone Mill, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS IA-30-11 Building/structure dates: 1913 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1924 Subsequent Work

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Lower Plymouth Rock Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Kendallville, Winneshiek County, IA

Lower Plymouth Rock Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Kendallville, W...

Significance: The Lower Plymouth Rock Bridge is one of the few intact examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America: the bowstring arch-truss. This pate... More

St. Anthony's Chapel, Old Mission Vicinity, Festina, Winneshiek County, IA

St. Anthony's Chapel, Old Mission Vicinity, Festina, Winneshiek County...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS IA-30-12

City Stone Mill, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

City Stone Mill, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS IA-30-11 Building/structure dates: 1913 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1924 Subsequent Work

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Saint Wenceslaus Catholic Church in Spillville, Iowa, which dates to 1860, is the oldest Czech Catholic church in the United States

Saint Wenceslaus Catholic Church in Spillville, Iowa, which dates to 1...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak composed two of his works, including the String Quartet in F ("The American"), at this church... More

Lower Plymouth Rock Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Kendallville, Winneshiek County, IA

Lower Plymouth Rock Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Kendallville, W...

Significance: The Lower Plymouth Rock Bridge is one of the few intact examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America: the bowstring arch-truss. This pate... More

St. Anthony's Chapel, Old Mission Vicinity, Festina, Winneshiek County, IA

St. Anthony's Chapel, Old Mission Vicinity, Festina, Winneshiek County...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS IA-30-12

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), Frankville, Winneshiek County, IA

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), F...

Significance: The wrought-iron Eureka Bridge is an example of the bowstring bridge, called bowstring truss or iron arch in the nineteenth century. Bowstring bridges were widely built in Iowa in the period 1860... More

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), Frankville, Winneshiek County, IA

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), F...

Significance: The wrought-iron Eureka Bridge is an example of the bowstring bridge, called bowstring truss or iron arch in the nineteenth century. Bowstring bridges were widely built in Iowa in the period 1860... More

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), Frankville, Winneshiek County, IA

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), F...

Significance: The wrought-iron Eureka Bridge is an example of the bowstring bridge, called bowstring truss or iron arch in the nineteenth century. Bowstring bridges were widely built in Iowa in the period 1860... More

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), Frankville, Winneshiek County, IA

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), F...

Significance: The wrought-iron Eureka Bridge is an example of the bowstring bridge, called bowstring truss or iron arch in the nineteenth century. Bowstring bridges were widely built in Iowa in the period 1860... More

W. S. Bucknell House, 210-13 Winnebago Street, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

W. S. Bucknell House, 210-13 Winnebago Street, Decorah, Winneshiek Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS IA-30-4

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa 1870.

Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa 1870.

Perspective map not drawn to scale. "Looking north west." LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 211 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes ill. and index to points of interes... More

The tiny Norsvin Mill, imported from Norway and displayed at Vesterheim, the Norwegian-American museum and heritage center in Decorah, Iowa

The tiny Norsvin Mill, imported from Norway and displayed at Vesterhei...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This gristmill mounted millstones on a vertical shaft. A flume carried water to activate a horizontal waterwheel at the base of the sh... More

The old Bank Block Building on a corner of downtown Decorah, Iowa

The old Bank Block Building on a corner of downtown Decorah, Iowa

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Lower Plymouth Rock Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Kendallville, Winneshiek County, IA

Lower Plymouth Rock Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Kendallville, W...

Significance: The Lower Plymouth Rock Bridge is one of the few intact examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America: the bowstring arch-truss. This pate... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Cemetery crosses at Spillville, Iowa's, Saint Wenceslaus Catholic Church, which dates to 1860, making it the oldest Czech Catholic church in the United States

Cemetery crosses at Spillville, Iowa's, Saint Wenceslaus Catholic Chur...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak composed two of his works, including the String Quartet in F ("The American"), at this church... More

People in traditional Norwegian clothing gather at Vesterheim, the Norwegian-American museum and heritage center in Decorah, Iowa

People in traditional Norwegian clothing gather at Vesterheim, the Nor...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum displays more than 33,000 Norwegian and Norwegian-American artifacts, includes 12 historic buildings, a folk-art School, an... More

People in traditional Norwegian clothing are more focused on young James Zook than at the gigantic Norwegian ship behind them at Vesterheim, the Norwegian-American museum and heritage center in Decorah, Iowa

People in traditional Norwegian clothing are more focused on young Jam...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum displays more than 33,000 Norwegian and Norwegian-American artifacts, includes 12 historic buildings, a folk-art School, an... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa

May 1902. 11 Sheet(s). Iowa fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability. T... More

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

Cemetery crosses at Spillville, Iowa's, Saint Wenceslaus Catholic Church, which dates to 1860, making it the oldest Czech Catholic church in the United States

Cemetery crosses at Spillville, Iowa's, Saint Wenceslaus Catholic Chur...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak composed two of his works, including the String Quartet in F ("The American"), at this church... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa

Mar 1914. 11 Sheet(s). Iowa fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability. T... More

Lower Plymouth Rock Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Kendallville, Winneshiek County, IA

Lower Plymouth Rock Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Kendallville, W...

Significance: The Lower Plymouth Rock Bridge is one of the few intact examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America: the bowstring arch-truss. This pate... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa

May 1902. 11 Sheet(s). Iowa fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability. T... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa

Mar 1914. 11 Sheet(s). Iowa fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability. T... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa

Mar 1914. 11 Sheet(s). Iowa fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability. T... More

Lower Plymouth Rock Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Kendallville, Winneshiek County, IA

Lower Plymouth Rock Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Kendallville, W...

Significance: The Lower Plymouth Rock Bridge is one of the few intact examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America: the bowstring arch-truss. This pate... More

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), Frankville, Winneshiek County, IA

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), F...

Significance: The wrought-iron Eureka Bridge is an example of the bowstring bridge, called bowstring truss or iron arch in the nineteenth century. Bowstring bridges were widely built in Iowa in the period 1860... More

W. S. Bucknell House, 210-13 Winnebago Street, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

W. S. Bucknell House, 210-13 Winnebago Street, Decorah, Winneshiek Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS IA-30-4

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Freeport Bridge, Spanning Upper Iowa River, Decorah, Winneshiek County...

Significance: The Freeport Bridge is one of the few unaltered examples remaining of what had once been the standard rural roadway bridge type of the 1870s in America, the bowstring arch-truss. This patented tu... More

The entrance to Bily's Clocks, a legendary local clockmaker's business in tiny Spillville, Iowa

The entrance to Bily's Clocks, a legendary local clockmaker's business...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. For years beginning in 1946, the brothers Frank and Joseph Bily carved intricate clocks at their farm home, between Spillville and 194... More

Kiosk explaining local history in Decorah, Iowa

Kiosk explaining local history in Decorah, Iowa

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Calmar, Winneshiek County, Iowa

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Calmar, Winneshiek County, Iowa

Feb 1914. 3 Sheet(s). Iowa fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability. Th... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa

Mar 1914. 11 Sheet(s). Iowa fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability. T... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa

May 1902. 11 Sheet(s). Iowa fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability. T... More

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), Frankville, Winneshiek County, IA

Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), F...

Significance: The wrought-iron Eureka Bridge is an example of the bowstring bridge, called bowstring truss or iron arch in the nineteenth century. Bowstring bridges were widely built in Iowa in the period 1860... More

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