Marble Rock, IA

Today's tour is of Marble Rock. It's about 5 miles away from us. From what I understand it was once a community of some wealth. Now it's basically a ghost town. I can vaguely remember from my childhood some of the beautiful homes along the main drag that are since long gone.

This house is getting a new roof. Which is nice on one hand, but on the other it used to have a Spanish tile roof. It really dressed the place up. It's still a nice house, but just not as eye catching.

Marble Rocks answer to the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

The old school.

I love this house! Someday I'm going to find out who owns it and ask for a tour.

For some reason the residents of Marble Rock like onion domes. There's another house in a lot worse shape down the road (too much over growth to get a picture, you'll have to wait till this fall) with this same feature. In fact now that I think about it the houses also have the same porch. Could they be sisters? New project for Becky.

Lovely porch.

Not so lovely porch.

This house is enormous. I was going to get a side view also so you could see better for yourself, but the camera battery died. When I was younger I always thought nuns lived here, just because it looks like the kind of place you'd find nuns.