The legendary American actor John Wayne's four-room birthplace home on John Wayne Drive in Winterset, Iowa, was built in the 1880s

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Marion Robert Morrison, who would one day adopt John Wayne as a stage name, weighed 13 pounds at birth on May 26, 1907. His father Clyde, a pharmacist, and mother Molly, a telephone operator, lived in the house for three years before moving the family to the larger town of Earlham, Iowa, and then to California. The house (as of 2016) has its original floor, stained glass, and bulls-eye woodwork. Its period furniture was donated.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:103-1).
Forms part of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.