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Tasteful Friends: Iowa Edition

Is this some sort of compound? The high ceilings make me feel uneasy!

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by Anonymousreply 55July 23, 2021 4:22 PM

it's kind of fuck up. Weird proportions.

by Anonymousreply 1July 18, 2021 4:36 AM

It looks like a repurposed prison.

by Anonymousreply 2July 18, 2021 4:40 AM

Spacious, but the interior is quite hideous. It looks like it was designed to be a schoolhouse or church or something.

by Anonymousreply 3July 18, 2021 4:44 AM

No windows. It is repurposed into a prison.

by Anonymousreply 4July 18, 2021 4:52 AM

Survivalist crap. The owners were probably told it was tornado-proof, which it is not.

by Anonymousreply 5July 18, 2021 4:55 AM

It was a museum. You know, exactly like the Louvre.

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by Anonymousreply 6July 18, 2021 4:56 AM

looks like a library from the outside

by Anonymousreply 7July 18, 2021 4:57 AM

Looking at it more closely, I think it must have been designed to be a church. The last few photos of the "garage" show elaborate stained-glass windows that you'd see in a church. Note the mirroring doors on each side.

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by Anonymousreply 8July 18, 2021 4:57 AM

[quote]Thank you all for coming to see Rick Santorum. For all of you who had their picture taken with Rick please click on the links below. You can order from Walgreens or download them yourself from Dropbox.

Praise Jesus!

by Anonymousreply 9July 18, 2021 4:58 AM

So it was a Church that someone built a home for the pastor's family as well?

Or those crazy Lowell's started the facility and then died and somebody repurposed it for a family?

by Anonymousreply 10July 18, 2021 4:59 AM

Weird window placement..

by Anonymousreply 11July 18, 2021 5:02 AM

Cozy!

by Anonymousreply 12July 18, 2021 5:05 AM

Pass.

by Anonymousreply 13July 18, 2021 5:06 AM

Repulsive yet hilarious.

by Anonymousreply 14July 18, 2021 5:06 AM

It was obviously built as a church you with attached class and meeting rooms - there’s a fucking parking lot in front of it. Why it was jerry-rigged into a Special Needs McMansion is beyond me, but doesn’t all that Home Depot oak cabinetry set off the blinding expanses of arctic white gypsum board real pretty-like. The realtor is just as much of a dip-shit as the decorator - the last thing those rooms need is to be made to look even larger with his standard issue 10mm lens.

by Anonymousreply 15July 18, 2021 5:10 AM

Perfect for a cult

by Anonymousreply 16July 18, 2021 5:13 AM

Aircraft Hanger Chic.

by Anonymousreply 17July 18, 2021 5:17 AM

Something very bad will happen there and/or in the adjacent fields.

by Anonymousreply 18July 18, 2021 5:33 AM

You would have to have a fuck ton of furniture to make any single room in that place even remotely comfortable or homey. It's too plain otherwise--no unique architectural features to speak of aside from the tall ceilings. All of those massive, white-walled empty rooms are honestly kind of creepy. The interior looks like your run-of-the-mill subdivision townhouse blown up to four times the regular size.

by Anonymousreply 19July 18, 2021 5:39 AM

This is the actual house where Clifford the Dog lived.

by Anonymousreply 20July 18, 2021 5:45 AM

Here I was thinking Rick Santorum was the crème de la crème of visiting dignitaries and then I learned that they hosted Akiane Kramarik!

For those who aren't familiar, she's the Colton Burpo of Jesus art. We are to believe that she shat out the painting below at eight years old after first picking up a paintbrush at six.

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by Anonymousreply 21July 18, 2021 5:46 AM

Honey, I Blew Up the House!

by Anonymousreply 22July 18, 2021 5:48 AM

See R6 it was a museum of religious art, somehow I don’t think it was full of Caravaggios.

by Anonymousreply 23July 18, 2021 5:49 AM

Tell us more, R18.

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by Anonymousreply 24July 18, 2021 5:56 AM

Here's a tour. I was hoping for an Exorcist 3 moment at 5:30.

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by Anonymousreply 25July 18, 2021 6:07 AM

The horror... the horror...

by Anonymousreply 26July 18, 2021 6:08 AM

It’s almost identical to the facades of Walmart Super Stores…was that it’s original purpose, then it became the museum?

by Anonymousreply 27July 18, 2021 6:13 AM

Giving me mental institution in butt fuck nowhere cornistan.

by Anonymousreply 28July 18, 2021 6:16 AM

Heating bill > Mortgage

by Anonymousreply 29July 18, 2021 6:17 AM

We have all other religions, but not...[italic]those[/italic] religions.

[quote]The Museum of Religious Arts was founded by Paul Lovell, a local man and a devout Catholic. Lovell saw that the old-time rural Catholic churches of Iowa and Nebraska were closing, and feared that all of their art would be lost. He created this museum, with 20,000 square feet of exhibit space, to preserve it -- and other religious art as well, although not art from all religions. There are no Buddhist mandalas, no Hindu statuary or Moslem calligraphy. "This is a Judeo-Christian religious art museum," said Rhonda McHugh, our guide. Rhonda told us that if the Museum were to display art from other faiths, "we'd have to change our mission statement."

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by Anonymousreply 30July 18, 2021 6:23 AM

Correctional facility was my first impression.

Depressing house.

by Anonymousreply 31July 18, 2021 6:24 AM

What a dump. Iowa is such a shit hole. Full of pig fuckers too.

by Anonymousreply 32July 18, 2021 6:24 AM

The picture on the dining room wall in Photo 9 looks like one of those father-daughter Purity Ball portraits. CREEPY!!!

by Anonymousreply 33July 18, 2021 6:32 AM

The picture in question:

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by Anonymousreply 34July 18, 2021 6:34 AM

Iowa? I can't imagine why anyone would want to live there. From what I've seen it doesn't even have any natural beauty. It's the middle of fucking nowhere and has dull, hideous scenery to boot.

by Anonymousreply 35July 18, 2021 7:41 AM

R35 it does look pretty dull, unless endless fields are your thing. Same with Nebraska. The northern midwest states like Minnesota and Michigan are a lot more scenic. The nice thing about many of those midwest states though is that there is a lot of great architecture and beautiful old houses—lots of towns and places that have kind of been untouched by time in a sense. Not the most thrilling place to be, but there is a beauty to them.

by Anonymousreply 36July 18, 2021 8:07 AM

Boys Halfway House?

by Anonymousreply 37July 18, 2021 8:52 AM

Walter Burley Griffin built a whole subdivision in Mason City.

by Anonymousreply 38July 18, 2021 5:10 PM

r21 What is a painting of Kenny Loggins doing in a religious museum?

by Anonymousreply 39July 18, 2021 9:30 PM

It does look like it was intended to be used as some sort of institution like a school or governmental facility. Whatever it is or was intended to be, it is hijjus, just hijjus.

by Anonymousreply 40July 18, 2021 9:34 PM

Oh, clearly I should have read through the thread before I posted.

Is it something put up by those crooked Hobby Lobby fuckers?

by Anonymousreply 41July 18, 2021 9:38 PM

Someone who had the money could hire a good architect and it could be turned into something more homey. First and foremost, rip that damn parking lot out and put in landscaped grounds. And then redesign the entire facade and add a lot of glass, and probably some other textures other than those hideous bricks.

by Anonymousreply 42July 18, 2021 9:41 PM

R39, Kenny has been pestering me with the same question.

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by Anonymousreply 43July 18, 2021 9:42 PM

[quote] it could be turned into something more homey.

Only for a cult.

It must be burned to the ground, cleansed by fire.

by Anonymousreply 44July 18, 2021 9:43 PM

You know, that would make an AMAZING MAGA de-indoctrination camp.

But seriously, it's Western Iowa FFS. There is nothing, and I mean nothing, of interest there to do/see.

Elk Horn is 20 minutes East and has some good Danish restaurants. But really, 35 steps beyond dull.

by Anonymousreply 45July 18, 2021 9:49 PM

The Ted Nugent Correctional Facility for Naughter Little Sluts

by Anonymousreply 46July 18, 2021 9:53 PM

The Dennis Hastert & Jim Jordan Christian Wrestling Retreat and Sauna.

by Anonymousreply 47July 19, 2021 1:55 AM

It's like 'Fargo' and 'American Horror Story' did a crossover episode.

by Anonymousreply 48July 19, 2021 2:23 AM

All the clothes in the closet were cheap and hideous.

by Anonymousreply 49July 19, 2021 3:25 AM

Are there corn fields?

by Anonymousreply 50July 19, 2021 3:30 AM

If Channing Tatum had married Carol Channing would he have done the progressive thing and taken his wife's surname?

by Anonymousreply 51July 23, 2021 10:21 AM

I thought it was stables, until I realised there were no loose boxes.

by Anonymousreply 52July 23, 2021 10:58 AM

Nothing says warm and inviting than an Exit sign over the front door.

by Anonymousreply 53July 23, 2021 3:26 PM

This was once either a church or a furniture store

by Anonymousreply 54July 23, 2021 3:52 PM

Instead of converting a museum to a home the building is better suited as a horse barn or self storage units.

by Anonymousreply 55July 23, 2021 4:22 PM
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