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 ...

If farm livin' is the life for you, then get ready to pack your bags. You could soon be hanging out in history's most famous little farm house. The iconic home from Grant Wood's 1930 painting American ...

More than 16,000 people visit the southeast Iowa town of Eldon each year to see the white cottage featured as the backdrop for the iconic 'American Gothic” painting by Grant Wood. But the town of ...

The renter of Iowa's most famous house is moving out. The farm house pictured in Grant Wood's painting, American Gothic, is rented out by the state's historical society. And now for our last word in ...

A magnificent Gothic property complete with clock tower and adorned with religious iconography is on the market for £2m. Built in 1827, the Clock House in East Sussex has retained many of its original ...

The world's most famous house no longer is a home. Starting in April, the public is invited to step inside the unoccupied American Gothic House in Eldon, Ia. This is the first time the state-owned ...

There are only a few paintings that are so well known, they’re part of popular culture. Leonardo Da Vinci’s “The Mona Lisa” is one, Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”, another. And, of course, there’s ...

Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Robert Bork, a professor of art history at the University of Iowa and a specialist in the study of Gothic architecture, was working in his office when a student knocked on ...

The Gothic mansion overlooking Biscayne Bay isn’t something you expect to see in gleaming, modern Miami, even in Coconut Grove, the oldest neighborhood in the city. “This is a magnificent example of a ...

In Eden, Kentucky, the air is thick with dust. The dying coal town is the fictional setting of Alix E. Harrow’s “Starling House,” and the smog of fading power and bad luck is enough to suffocate its ...