The Henshie-Briggs Row House is a historic building located in

Des Moines, Iowa Des Moines is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities in Iowa, most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa. It is the county seat of Polk County, Iowa, Polk County with parts extending into Warren County, Iowa, Wa ...

, United States. While the

row house A terrace, terraced house (British English, UK), or townhouse (American English, US) is a type of medium-density housing which first started in 16th century Europe with a row of joined houses party wall, sharing side walls. In the United States ...

was a popular building form in the 19th century in the city, there are very few examples that remain. with The two-story, brick,

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century It ...

structure was completed in 1883. The single-family dwelling features brick load-bearing walls, a flat roof, and a wooden

cornice In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian ''cornice'' meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative Moulding (decorative), moulding that crowns a building or furniture element—for example, the cornice over a door or window, ar ...

. The house was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 2001. It was moved to its current location on Woodland Avenue in 2008.

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Houses completed in 1883 Italianate architecture in Iowa Houses in Des Moines, Iowa National Register of Historic Places in Des Moines, Iowa Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa {{DesMoinesIA-stub