On an unassuming street in Eldon, Iowa — population 785 — a little white house that inspired one of the world’s most famous paintings sits on a grassy lawn. Built in the 1880s by a local family, the ...

Iowa's most famous home – with apologies to gubernatorial mansion Terrace Hill and the gruesomely infamous Villisca Axe Murder House – is vacant again for the first time in four years. The American ...

More than 16,000 people visit the southeast Iowa town of Eldon each year to see the white cottage featured as the backdrop for the iconic 'American Gothic” painting by Grant Wood. But the town of ...

The world's most famous house no longer is a home. Starting in April, the public is invited to step inside the unoccupied American Gothic House in Eldon, Ia. This is the first time the state-owned ...

There are only a few paintings that are so well known, they’re part of popular culture. Leonardo Da Vinci’s “The Mona Lisa” is one, Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”, another. And, of course, there’s ...