Levi Grinnell came from Vermont to settle in Poweshiek County in the 1850s.

Levi Grinnell owned this property from 1857 to 1863, and had the house built about 1860.

The 1½-story frame structure is characteristic of vernacular Greek Revival domestic architecture found in the small towns and the rural areas of the upper Midwest.

[2] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

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