Is this some sort of compound? The high ceilings make me feel uneasy!
it's kind of fuck up. Weird proportions.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 18, 2021 4:36 AM |
It looks like a repurposed prison.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 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 Anonymous | reply 3 | July 18, 2021 4:44 AM |
No windows. It is repurposed into a prison.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 18, 2021 4:52 AM |
Survivalist crap. The owners were probably told it was tornado-proof, which it is not.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 18, 2021 4:55 AM |
It was a museum. You know, exactly like the Louvre.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 18, 2021 4:56 AM |
looks like a library from the outside
by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 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.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 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 Anonymous | reply 9 | July 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 Anonymous | reply 10 | July 18, 2021 4:59 AM |
Weird window placement..
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 18, 2021 5:02 AM |
Cozy!
by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 18, 2021 5:05 AM |
Pass.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 18, 2021 5:06 AM |
Repulsive yet hilarious.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 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 Anonymous | reply 15 | July 18, 2021 5:10 AM |
Perfect for a cult
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 18, 2021 5:13 AM |
Aircraft Hanger Chic.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 18, 2021 5:17 AM |
Something very bad will happen there and/or in the adjacent fields.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 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 Anonymous | reply 19 | July 18, 2021 5:39 AM |
This is the actual house where Clifford the Dog lived.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 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.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 18, 2021 5:46 AM |
Honey, I Blew Up the House!
by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 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 Anonymous | reply 23 | July 18, 2021 5:49 AM |
Here's a tour. I was hoping for an Exorcist 3 moment at 5:30.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 18, 2021 6:07 AM |
The horror... the horror...
by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 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 Anonymous | reply 27 | July 18, 2021 6:13 AM |
Giving me mental institution in butt fuck nowhere cornistan.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 18, 2021 6:16 AM |
Heating bill > Mortgage
by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 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."
by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 18, 2021 6:23 AM |
Correctional facility was my first impression.
Depressing house.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 18, 2021 6:24 AM |
What a dump. Iowa is such a shit hole. Full of pig fuckers too.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 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 Anonymous | reply 33 | July 18, 2021 6:32 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 Anonymous | reply 35 | July 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 Anonymous | reply 36 | July 18, 2021 8:07 AM |
Boys Halfway House?
by Anonymous | reply 37 | July 18, 2021 8:52 AM |
Walter Burley Griffin built a whole subdivision in Mason City.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | July 18, 2021 5:10 PM |
r21 What is a painting of Kenny Loggins doing in a religious museum?
by Anonymous | reply 39 | July 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 Anonymous | reply 40 | July 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 Anonymous | reply 41 | July 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 Anonymous | reply 42 | July 18, 2021 9:41 PM |
R39, Kenny has been pestering me with the same question.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | July 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 Anonymous | reply 44 | July 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 Anonymous | reply 45 | July 18, 2021 9:49 PM |
The Ted Nugent Correctional Facility for Naughter Little Sluts
by Anonymous | reply 46 | July 18, 2021 9:53 PM |
The Dennis Hastert & Jim Jordan Christian Wrestling Retreat and Sauna.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | July 19, 2021 1:55 AM |
It's like 'Fargo' and 'American Horror Story' did a crossover episode.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | July 19, 2021 2:23 AM |
All the clothes in the closet were cheap and hideous.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | July 19, 2021 3:25 AM |
Are there corn fields?
by Anonymous | reply 50 | July 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 Anonymous | reply 51 | July 23, 2021 10:21 AM |
I thought it was stables, until I realised there were no loose boxes.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | July 23, 2021 10:58 AM |
Nothing says warm and inviting than an Exit sign over the front door.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | July 23, 2021 3:26 PM |
This was once either a church or a furniture store
by Anonymous | reply 54 | July 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 Anonymous | reply 55 | July 23, 2021 4:22 PM |