Arthur Hillyer Ford House
Iowa City, United States
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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The Arthur Hillyer Ford House is a Mission Revival residence completed in 1909 in Iowa City for Arthur Hillyer Ford, a University of Iowa professor of electrical engineering and inventor of glare-less automobile headlights. Designed by local architect Orville H. Carpenter, the house displays characteristic features of the style: stuccoed walls, a red clay tile roof with wide overhanging eaves, wall dormers with scalloped parapets, and a quatrefoil window. A full-length front porch with square piers and flattened arches provides symmetrical composition to the façade. The interior shows American Craftsman influence, notably in a fireplace inglenook. Listed individually on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, the house was later designated a contributing property within the Brown Street Historic District in 1994.
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- Built
- Type
- house
- Heritage
- National Register of Historic Places listed place, National Register of Historic Places contributing property
- Place
- Iowa City, United States
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