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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '2002-05-24T03:07:03'
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title: American Gothic House
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The next time you're in Eldon, Iowa, stop by [the Dibble House](http://showcase.netins.net/web/eldon/ghouse.html), best known as "that house behind the dour couple in _American Gothic_ ". And did you know that the couple was supposed to represent a typical American small town resident and his daughter, and not a husband and wife? Perhaps Grant Wood could have been more clear.