The Woodland Place Historic District is located on the west side of Des Moines, Iowa, United States.

[1] Percival-Porter and Company had Woodland Place platted in June 1907 and Ellen F. Whitman, the landowner, had it officially recorded on July 5, 1907.

What makes this situation unique in Des Moines is that the developers were offering completed houses for sale, rather than empty lots.

It was a woman's group who goals were social interaction in order to develop lasting friendships.

Around the same time the "Woodland Boosters" were organized to promote "sidewalk, paving, and other improvements and in a general way to enlist the interest of the people of that section in the city beautiful movement.