Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 80001446 Added to NRHP 25 January 1980 | Built 1865 Opened 1865 | |
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Location 829 N. 5th St.
Burlington, Iowa Architectural styles Vernacular architecture, Italianate architecture Similar Burlington Public Library, Cascade Bridge, German Methodist Episcopal, First Congregational Church, Lock and Dam No 18 | ||
The Augustus Caesar Dodge House is a historic residence located in Burlington, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Augustus C. Dodge came to Burlington as Registrar of the Land Office, a political appointment of President Martin Van Buren. As a Democrat, he went on to serve as the Iowa Territory's Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives (1840-1846), one of Iowa's first two U.S. Senators (1848-1854), Minister to Spain under Presidents Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan (1855-1859), and then Mayor of Burlington (1874-1875). The two-story, brick house follows an L-shaped plan. It is representative of Burlington's mid-19th century architecture. The house is not a pure architectural style, but the bracketed eaves allow it to be classified as a vernacular form of the Italianate style.