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Netcott Pfeiffer House

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
07000347

Architectural style
  
Italianate architecture

Built
  
1894

Opened
  
1894

Added to NRHP
  
24 April 2007

Netcott-Pfeiffer House

Location
  
206 Buswell St. Parkersburg, Iowa

Built by
  
George Netcott, Jr. George A. Netcott

Netcott-Pfeiffer House is a historic residential building located in Parkersburg, Iowa, United States. The Italianate style double house was built in 1894 by George Netcott, Jr. and his son George A. Netcott. Harry E. Netcott, another of George Jr.'s sons, is believed to have designed the house. George A. Netcott sold the house in 1896 to Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, a pharmacist, and his brother Paul, a local banker and land baron. The brothers, who were also humanitarians and philanthropists, lived here together with their families until Gustavus moved to St. Louis in 1901. Paul's daughter Pauline was a journalist and the second wife of Ernest Hemingway. She lived in the house from 1896 to 1901. The house is also associated with physicist Edwin Thompson Jaynes, who lived here from 1929 to 1942 with his mother after his father's death. The house was listed to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

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Netcott-Pfeiffer House Wikipedia