Linsay House
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The Linsay House is a house in Iowa City listed on the National Register of Historic Places
. It is perhaps most famous as the model for the Bloom County
boarding house
. Currently, it is run as a not-for-profit cooperative by the River City Housing Collective.
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
. It is perhaps most famous as the model for the Bloom County
Bloom County
Bloom County is an American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which ran from December 8, 1980, until August 6, 1989. It examined events in politics and culture through the viewpoint of a fanciful small town in Middle America, where children often have adult personalities and vocabularies and where...
boarding house
Boarding house
A boarding house, is a house in which lodgers rent one or more rooms for one or more nights, and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months and years. The common parts of the house are maintained, and some services, such as laundry and cleaning, may be supplied. They normally provide "bed...
. Currently, it is run as a not-for-profit cooperative by the River City Housing Collective.