On an unassuming street in Eldon, Iowa — population 785 — a little white house that inspired one of the world’s most famous paintings sits on a grassy lawn. Built in the 1880s by a local family, the ...

on the edge of the small town of Eldin atop one of the general rolling hills of southeast Iowa. There is a simple white house. It is a most unremarkable little home except for a single Gothic style ...