5 Turner Alley

The fourth grade at Hoover went on a field trip to "5 Turner Alley" this week. This was the studio of Cedar Rapids native Grant Wood. The studio itself was also a home to Grant, his mother, and his sister. It orginally was a hayloft above a carriage-house at a mortuary. Friends of his owned the mortuary and offered for Grant Wood to live in the hayloft for free. He made the space his own and created many new/unique ways to maximize the space of the hayloft. He painted his most famous painting, American Gothic, while living there.