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Blacksmith Shop

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1950, William J. Wagner

This shop is a reconstruction of the shed-roofed clapboard blacksmith shop operated by Hoover's father between 1871 and 1879.

Writing Credits

Author: 
David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim
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What's Nearby

Schoolhouse
Birthplace Cottage
Friends Meetinghouse
Store Building (now West Branch Heritage Museum)
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum Building

Citation

David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim, "Blacksmith Shop", [West Branch, Iowa], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/IA-01-ME385.2.

Print Source

Buildings of Iowa, David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 151-151.

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