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Help us preserve a living history
The Ira & Asenath Sturdevant House: A Living History Project began in 2009 with the purchase of the Ira & Asenath Sturdevant House at a sheriff’s sale. The project’s goal is to restore the oldest house in Waverly to create a living history site illustrating the lives of 1850s Cedar River settlers and their Native American neighbors.
Download our brochure parts one and two.
We need your help to make this project a success. Whether you can donate time, tools, materials, or funding, each of you can play a role in preserving this pioneer settler’s home in Waverly.
Annual levels of affiliation:
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$10 Individual
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$20 Family
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$30 Brick
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$100 Mortar
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$150 Fireside
Friends will be listed and honored on our website and in literature with additional benefits forthcoming as we grow.
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Make checks payable to: Ira Sturdevant House (ISH)
Mail to:
Ira Sturdevant House
P.O. Box 171
Waverly, IA 50677
Questions:
Kathy Sturdevant
719-238-8329
Katherine.Sturdevant@ppcc.edu
The Ira & Asenath Sturdevant House is a registered 501c3 nonprofit organization incorporated with the State of Iowa.
All donations are tax deductible
Rick Sturdevant and Preservation Iowa’s Rod Scott with square nail donation.
“We need to preserve buildings that speak directly to those of us whose families had calluses, as well as to those who had carriages. It’s a fine thing to exhibit the aesthetic best out of the past, but it can be equally important to interpret the ways men and women worked and created and played. … Let’s speak to Americans in terms that add meaning to their own everyday lives, that place their jobs, their responsibilities as citizens and parents, in historic context so that they see their present problems, not as exceptions, but as continuations of the challenges faced by their forefathers.”
Louis C. Jones in Three Eyes on the Past: Exploring New York Folk Life (Syracuse University Press, 1982), 13.
[Louis C. Jones was Director, New York State Historical Association, the Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown, a co-founder of the New York Folklore Society.]