Hannah Varney House Original Site

Hannah Varney House (left) and House of the Maples (right), 1910.

National Park Service

The Hannah Varney House was built in 1899, several years after Herbert Hoover left West Branch to live in Oregon. The National Park Service moved the Varney House a short distance from its original site on Downey Street in 1967. The home is meant to be representative of small town Iowa residences of the period and helps to recreate the past appearance of the neighborhood.