There's No House In The World Like This One In Iowa
Hidden over in west central Iowa is a house unlike any other. What makes this house remarkable is that it was built in 1660, almost 200 years before Iowa even became a state.
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The hausbarn was originally built in Germany in 1660, then taken apart and reassembled in Manning in 1996. Due to border disputes, the house can boast that it stood in Austria, Prussia, Denmark and Germany before it came to call Iowa home.
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Visitors of the hausbarn often say that their relatives of German descent used to live in hausbarns just like this, and that it's a remarkable thing to be able to see what life was like for them way back then.
For more information on the hausbarn, check out this video by Travel Iowa:
So now you know, if you want to get a glimpse at what life was like during 17th century Germany, you don’t need a time machine or a magic portal, you just need a car to get you over to Manning, Iowa.
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