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WAUKON
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| Barnes Octagon House, 22 East Main Street, Waukon |
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Constructed ca. 1865; stone Italianate; 20-foot bedrock foundation, wall stones quarried from foundation. |
| Gjefle Log Cabin, 121 Allamakee Street, Waukon |
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This two-story cabin, originally built by Norwegian immigrants, housed as many as 15 people at a single time, between 1870 and 1886; was moved to its present site in 1990. |
| J. H. Hager House, 17 Fourth Avenue NE, Waukon |
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Constructed ca. 1920; stucco Prairie School-style home designed by architect George Maher of Chicago; presently a private single-family dwelling. |
| Old Courthouse Museum, 107 Allamakee Street, Waukon |
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Constructed in 1861; native brick Italianate/Greek Revival; listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Center of great controversy between the cities of Waukon and Lansing. Both cities raised funds and built “county” courthouses (Lansing completing theirs first). In June of 1866, after ten county seat contests, a posse of 30 men took the county records from the Lansing courthouse and tried to deliver them to Waukon. The Iowa Supreme Court later intervened in the dispute, making Waukon the official county seat. |
| Otto J. Hager House, 402 Allamakee Street, Waukon |
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Constructed ca. 1908; brick Prairie School-style home designed by architect Robert C. Spenser of Chicago; listed on the National Register of Historic Places. |
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