Margaret N. Keyes research files on Iowa and Iowa City architectural history, ca. 1835-1993.

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Margaret N. Keyes research files on Iowa and Iowa City architectural history, ca. 1835-1993.

Research files related to all of Iowa's counties and numerous cities including newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, sketches, and literature about specific buildings and residential and commercial architectural styles. Research note cards are included as well as genealogical materials on the Keyes and allied families, portraits of Keyes, photographs of historic homes and buildings, and National Register nomination forms for many Iowa City properties

12.5 linear ft. (25 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7568200

Iowa State Historical Society

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Keyes family.

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Keyes, Margaret N., 1918-

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Margaret Keyes was born in Mount Vernon, Iowa and graduated from Cornell College (Mount Vernon) with a B.A. in home economics. She pursued a graduate degree at the University of Wisconsin and joined the Home Economics faculty at the University of Iowa in 1951. In 1961 she took a leave of absence from the University of Iowa to pursue a graduate program in historic preservation at Florida State University. In 1965 she completed her Ph.D., published her dissertation, Nineteenth Century Home Archite...