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In Dubuque, Iowa, the roughly 1827 Louis Riando House was originally a small frame structure used by fur traders. It survived the 19th-century boom and now is often hidden within a larger building, representing early settler resilience.
Kansas: VanGrou House
Built around 1824 in Shawnee, the VanGrou House served as a stagecoach tavern on frontier routes. Made of hand-pressed brick, portions of the house still stand today, a testament to early French-Spanish settlement on the frontier.