"This old house an isle of pride, acceptance," April 18, 2001

A HOME OF HISTORY Q^i\li\ Jipto^n^ Apr. l'^;2oo\ .. I ri Kim Kennedy/The Daily lowan Simone Alvarez of 942 Iowa Ave. poses inside the house she has owned since 1985. The house was previously used as a domicile for Ul black female students from 1919-1950. This old house an isle of pride, acceptance ¦ For 30 years, a house on Iowa Avenue was more than a home for the Ul's black female students. By Peter Boylan The Daily lowan It just looked like a run-down white house, not a place where students had learned about jazz, met their husbands and found acceptance. And for Simone Delaty Alvarez, the two-story house at 942 Iowa Ave. seemed more like trouble than a tri¬ umph. "The previous owners had let it fall apart," said Alvarez, a former UI pro¬ fessor of French who bought the house in 1985. "The bank had repossessed it." But as Alvarez worked to renovate the old house, including getting it put on the National Historical Register, she 942 Iowa Ave. Time LiiiB 942 Iowa Ave. provided a place for black female students to live while the Ul campus was segregated. A history of the house: P—1852 Farmhouse -1919 Bought by the Iowa Federation of Colored Women's Club. r1950 House was sold to an unknown individual. *^^ -1985 Purchased by Dr. Simone Delaty Alvarez, a former Ul French professor, from an ^p. undisclosed bank. ¦i Source: Dl research DI/JA discovered the stories of the first black women to attend the UI were just as See IOWA AVE., Page 4A University of Iowa Libraries. University Archives