I bet you always wondered where Ashton Kutcher was from, didn't you? The town of Oxford, Iowa, also has some great buildings on its main street as well.
I love how the building below has a strange, round window right in the middle of its front wall; there are many unique architectural varieties in Iowa, probably the work of individual masons who imprinted their personal style on buildings.
I love driving into small towns in Iowa and finding unique buildings.
It's fun to speculate on the original uses of some of these buildings. The rack-faced building on the far left of the first photo just HAD to be the bank; the red building on the corner HAD to be a clothing-type store, whence the large windows. The building with the round window had to be a fellowship hall of some sort - well, either that or one commissioned by Mr. Mell----.
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