Iowa School for Boys
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Iowa Industrial School for Boys (Iowa School for Boys)
1872–1873, later. West side of Eldora, off Iowa 175
The initial building constructed in the early 1870s was a two-story Italianate structure with a gable roof. By the mid-1870s this was joined by a number of other buildings, including three which, with their mansard roofs, were French Second Empire in style. Today the most interesting building is the gymnasium (c. 1910), a brick building with gable ends and a bit of the Mission style.
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