HERBERT HOOVER
The Hoover Houses and Community Structures
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Plate VI. Grant Wood's Painting, "The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover." Note the Hoover Cottage, the Scellers House, and the Downey Street Bridge. Courtesy Allan Pomeroy Collins.

Plate VII. Herbert Hoover returns to West Branch and the Birthplace Cottage, on August 21, 1928, to open his Midwestern Campaign. The Hoover Party emerges from the Scellers Kitchen, after breakfast. Courtesy Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.

Plate VIII. Jennie Scellers' House, south elevation, circa 1928. The ell at the rear of the porch was removed and the Cottage was relocated and turned 90 degrees, this again became the east elevation of the Cottage. Msud Stratton's Scrapbooks, courtesy Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.



Plates IX. & X. Bruce McKay's Drawings of Proposed Restoration of Hoover Cottage and Construction of Caretakers' Lodge, Autumn 1937. Courtesy Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.

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