George Rewerts House

The George Rewerts House is a historic residence located in Defiance, Iowa, United States.

[1] The historic importance of the house is its association with German immigration into this part of Iowa from 1872 into the 1940s.

[2] George Rewerts immigrated to the United States in 1882, and settled in Council Bluffs before moving to Defiance in 1887.

He bought the company in 1902, the same year he built this house with the assistance of Nels Gregersen and Lee Hulsebus.

This article about a property in Shelby County, Iowa on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.