Adams County, Iowa

Ben Marcin on his photograph:

"Adams County, Iowa, 2023, was photographed in the course of making Flyover Country, a lengthy photo essay featuring landscapes and houses located in the middle regions of the United States. 

One of the architectural oddities that can be found in certain east coast cities is the solo row house. Standing alone on vacant lots, in some of the most distressed neighborhoods, these nineteenth-century structures were once attached to similar row houses that made up entire city blocks. Time as well as major demographic and social changes have resulted in the decay and ultimate demolition of many such blocks of row houses. Occasionally, one house is spared—literally cut off from its neighbors and left to the elements with whatever time it has left. The existence of these solitary buildings poses a number of interesting questions. Still retaining traces of its former glory, the last house standing is often still occupied."

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