Laura Musser McColm Historic District

Contributing properties include the 1908 residence, the carriage house from the 1920s, and the Japanese garden that was installed in 1929.

After Edwin's death in 1933 Laura married William T. Atkins in 1938 and resided at his home in Kansas City, Missouri.

[3] The following year her heirs donated the estate to the art museum along with a $100,000 endowment to maintain the house.

[2] In 2021, a grant from the Iowa Department of Cultural affairs to restore the historic Japanese-style garden was announced.

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

Muscatine Art Center Japanese-style garden, built c.1930