Gen. Samuel R. Curtis House

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Gen. Samuel R. Curtis House is a historic two-story limestone home at 206 High Street in Keokuk, Iowa. Built about 1848–1849 in the Greek Revival style, it was originally L-shaped and became rectangular after an 1857 renovation. A full-width front porch with Ionic columns and later Adamesque details add to its appearance. The back has a walk-out basement and a two-story carriage house (not part of the historic designation because it was built after Curtis’s death).

The house is named for Samuel R. Curtis, an engineer, congressman, and Keokuk mayor in the 1850s, and a Civil War hero who became Iowa’s first Major General; he died in 1866. The Curtis family kept the house until 1895. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 23, 1998.