1976
Citation: 227.1308.5 (Full image size: 61Kb)
Picture taken by Ruth Hansen Boast, during an April, 1976, church "shut-in" visit, of Maggie Sharp, the owner of a log home northeast of Huxley, Iowa. Boast and Sharp were both members of First Methodist Church in Ames. The log cabin was built by Andrew Bard in 1854; a frame structure was added around 1900. The kitchen/ diningroom was located in the log portion of the house. The house was occupied by Bard's granddaughter Margaret Sharp from 1901 until her death in 1981. After she died, the house was occupied by her cousin Roy Thomas. The cabin's structure had substantially declined by the 1990s and was razed. More information on this cabin home can be found on pp. 27-29 of "Ames; the Early Years in Word and Picture, From Marsh to Modern City," by Farwell T. Brown, 1993. (See also: 227.1309.1-2)
Citation: 227.1309.3-5 (Full image size: 57Kb)
The kitchen of the Sharp log home, located northeast of Huxley, Iowa. At the time of this photograph, taken by Ruth Boast in April of 1976, the house was occupied by Maggie Sharp, who was a member of the First Methodist Church of Ames where Ruth Boast was also a member. This was, at the time of the photograph, one of only two log cabins remaining in Story County, the other being the Bauge cabin.
SHARP, MARGARET
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