Thomas J. Conover House

Thomas J. Conover House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	1010 N. Market St. Oskaloosa, Iowa
Coordinates	41°18′14″N 92°38′42″W / 41.30389°N 92.64500°WCoordinates: 41°18′14″N 92°38′42″W / 41.30389°N 92.64500°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1910
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
MPS	Quaker Testimony in Oskaloosa MPS
NRHP Reference #	96000342[1]
Added to NRHP	March 28, 1996

The Thomas J. Conover House is a historic residence located in Oskaloosa, Iowa, United States. Thomas J. Conover was a farmer who retired to town as a widower about 1910. He and his daughter Casa Mae Conover, lived here together while she worked at William Penn College. Between 1925 and 1951 she was a teacher of religious education, assistant registrar, secretary to the president, and the registrar. Single women who worked for the college rarely owned their own home. This suggests the difference in pay between men and women at the institution, even as it espoused gender equality.^[2] Casa had to live with her father and care for him in his old-age. Their Colonial Revival house was built about 1910. It is a two-story, frame, single-family dwelling that features a gable-end facade roof with hip-on-gable roof embellishment, fishscale shingles on the gable end, and a full-length front porch. It is the Casa Mae Conover's association with the school in the context of the Quaker testimony in Oskaloosa that makes this house historic.^[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

References

1. National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. William C. Page, Joanne R. Walroth. "Thomas J. Conover House" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-05-03.