J.J. McClung House

Garden Grove, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Heritage registerNational Register of Historic Places↗

The J.J. McClung House is a 2½-story frame residence built from 1908 to 1909 in Garden Grove, Iowa, designed by architect Charles F. Church of Lamoni. The house blends Neoclassical and Colonial Revival styles with particular distinction: its most prominent feature is a full-height entry porch supported by paired fluted Corinthian columns, topped with a plain entablature and triangular pediment. Colonial Revival elements include Palladian windows in the gable ends, a lunette in the porch pediment, and scalloped brackets beneath the eaves, while Neoclassical details appear in the architrave window trim and fluted pilaster corner boards. Built by Decatur County contractor Wiley Sells of Leon for James Johnson McClung—a transplant from Ohio who operated a livery and dray business and later established the county's first service station—the house remained with the McClung family for eighty years before being added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.