Vintage

A New Style of The Midwest

By Lou Ann Lindblade

The Creation of Sioux City, Iowa's, largest public-use Prairie Style building was not a foregone conclusion when a new Woodbury Courthouse was being planned in 1914. The building, considered today to be one of the 100 most outstanding architectural structures in the U.S., came about through an inspired act of professional respect, a bait-and-switch of plans, and the polictical and economic lure of using locally maufactured brick and the labor of local bricklayers... read more here. Published in American Bungalow Magazine