Camp Pope, one of two Civil War training camps in Iowa City, occupied a 28-acre site in this area where three infantry regiments each spent a month between August and December 1862, with barracks likely near the present alley between Sheridan and Seymour Avenues; within weeks after the Iowa 28th left on December 12, 1862, the camp buildings were reportedly torn down or taken by neighboring farmers and moved, but local lore holds that some still stand today, perhaps the building here, which county plat maps show was present before 1870 on land owned by Henry Strohm and which a similarly shaped building appears to show on the 1864 Birds-Eye Map of Iowa City, making it possible that this millsawn-lumber structure with a limestone foundation has stood here since the Civil War. At the end of World War II, when returning servicemen and women faced a shortage of affordable housing, Chicago engineer Carl Strandlund designed the Lustron home, one of the first prefabricated factory-built houses, and from 1947 to 1950 the Lustron Corporation produced about 2,500 porcelain-enameled steel homes in a decommissioned airplane factory near Columbus, Ohio; delivered by specially designed trucks and sold for $7,000 to $11,000, these compact homes were promoted as modern, elegant, sanitary, rodent-free, fire-proof, and low-maintenance, and President Harry Truman urged a $12.5 million federal loan to expand their production, but political corruption helped collapse the project even as one Lustron was being erected every four days, and although some suffered from poor heaters, leaking windows, and mildew from poor venting, the Iowa City examples are among about 2,000 surviving in largely unmodified condition without major repairs.