MPS Ottumwa MPS Architectural style American Craftsman Architect George M. Kerns | NRHP Reference # 95000967 Added to NRHP 11 August 1995 | |
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Location Roughly bounded by the Ottumwa Country Club, Court St., the Ottumwa Cemetery, and the former St. Joseph Hospital
Ottumwa, Iowa Similar First National Bank, B'nai Jacob Synagogue, Ottumwa City Hall, Eldon Public Library, Mars Hill | ||
The Vogel Place Historic District is a historic district located in Ottumwa, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 as a part of the Ottumwa MPS.
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History
The property that encompasses the Vogel Place Historic District belonged to E.B. and Elizabeth Vogel, from which it derives its name. Upon E.B.’s death the land passed to their daughters. The original plat map was certified by the Wapello County recorder in September 1907 and it was filed by the recorder in March of the following year. The daughters started sells lots in 1908. Most of the houses in the district were built in the 1920s and the 1930s. The Ottumwa Electric Railroad served the neighborhood on North Court Street and was an important means of transportation to the central business district. It was one of the first neighborhoods in the city where a garage was considered an important part of the development.
Architecture
The area covered by the district includes 91 house, a hospital, a church, a brick paved street and four distinctive driveways. The houses are basic middle-class structures that are one to two stories tall. Most of the houses are constructed of wood with a small garage behind the house. There are several houses where the exterior is composed of brick veneer and two houses were built of concrete block. Nearly a quarter of the houses were built in either the Bungalow or the American Craftsman styles. They were built between 1912 and 1930. The Tudor Revival style was also common and there are examples of both the half-timbered and English Cottage versions. Larger homes in the Romantic Revival styles are found along North Court Street while some of the other larger homes from the 1920s were built in the Colonial Revival style. There are also five examples of American Four Square houses on Vogel Avenue.