Chaffee-Hunter House
Chaffee-Hunter House is a historic home in Des Moines, Iowa. Built in 1886, it is a 2½-story Queen Anne-style house with a gable-on-hip roof, brick foundation, a wrap-around porch, dormer windows, and intersecting gables. The first owners were Henry L. Chaffee and Edward H. Hunter, who bought the house in 1891. Hunter was Des Moines’ postmaster from 1894 to 1898 and came up with the idea of a streetcar-mounted mail collection box, later adopted in other cities. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. In 2016, it became a contributing property in the Polk County Homestead and Trust Company Addition Historic District. Address: 1821 8th St, Des Moines, Iowa.
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