The house that inspired "American Gothic" is "more than just that little house,” says Cari Nicely, administrator of the namesake visitors center in Eldon, Iowa.

The renter of Iowa's most famous house is moving out. The farm house pictured in Grant Wood's painting, American Gothic, is rented out by the state's historical society.

Head to Eldon, Iowa, to dress up as the farmer and his daughter at the iconic home from Grant Wood's "American Gothic" painting.

Unlike Howard, the stern-faced couple in the American Gothic painting never lived in the house. In fact, they never even posed outside it.

Writer Beth Howard, who visited Portland in April promoting her book A Memoir of Love, Loss and Pie," lives in the famous "American Gothic" house in Iowa. The farmhouse immortalized by is all of ...

Goth bless America. The American Gothic House is at 300 American Gothic Street in Eldon, Iowa, 103 miles southeast of Des Moines.

And, of course, there’s “American Gothic” by Grant Wood. In 1930, Wood noticed a simple house built in Carpenter Gothic style in his home state of Iowa and decided to use it as the backdrop ...

Ryan Murphy’s latest show, premiering Wednesday on FX, is an exhausting but stylistically thrilling haunted-house story wrapped in a metaphorical lesson on marital infidelity.

The American Gothic House is at 300 American Gothic Street in Eldon, Iowa, 103 miles southeast of Des Moines. Gunnar Johnson, a Sun Sentinel designer, is the author of Eccentric Roadside, www ...