First run as a weekly series in the Fort Dodge Messenger, this picture-history profiles 101 homes still standing in the Iowa town, from the Oleson and Dolliver houses onward. Retired city editor Karl Haugen traced each through state, county and city records, telling who built it and who followed, while industrialist Allen R. Loomis supplied the photographs.
A local chronicle for Iowa historians, genealogists and anyone curious about the small-city Midwest through its houses. Download the free EPUB.