Farm House Museum
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Given the limited hours of this museum on the Iowa State University campus, I've never quite got a chance to visit this place until recently. Important lesson that I've learned: thank goodness there is limited hours at this museum. This place gave me the creeps while I was moving through the building taking pictures. Definitely come with a friend, or better yet, come with a group. I can't imagine the poor undergrad that has to sit in this museum on a regular basis. Anyways, the museum itself contains a mind boggling 3 stories worth of rooms filled with various artifacts. The rooms/exhibits on the third floor is especially pressuring/claustrophobic given that it's basically the attic of the "farm house," and there is a very little room to move about. I guess if you're into the whole paranormal investigation stuff, this is not a bad place to check out.
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Address
601 Farm House Ln, Ames, IA 50011
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Phone
(515) 294-3342
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Website
museums.iastate.edu
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The Farm House, also known as the Knapp–Wilson House, is the oldest building on the campus of Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Now a museum open to the general public, this house was built 1861-65 as part of the model farm that eventually became Iowa State.
attractions: Iowa State University, Conversations Dining, Brunnier Art Museum, Christian Petersen Art Museum, Lake LaVerne, Anderson Sculpture Garden, restaurants: Cafe Beaudelaire, Jeff's Pizza Shop, Pizza Pit, Tosca, Welch Ave. Station, Mr Burrito, Bar La Tosca, Roni's Mac Bar - Ames, Macubana, Union Drive Marketplace
