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When Mark McCallum aboriginal saw the august abode at 113 S. Johnson St. in Iowa City breadth he now runs the Burford Abode Inn, he knew it was article special.

Built in 1903, the home was ahead endemic by Byron and Kay Burford, who bought it in 1968. Burford, an artisan and University of Iowa professor, was a apprentice of Grant Wood, and his brightly-colored paintings are displayed at museums beyond the country — and in the antechamber over the advanced board at the Burford Abode Inn, breadth a beck of guests now stay.

McCallum bought the abode in 2013 and spent the abutting year converting it into a bed-and-breakfast afore aperture the doors in October 2014. That meant abacus bathrooms to anniversary of the bristles bedfellow apartment and advance wiring, accouterments and the heating and air conditioning systems. It additionally meant abacus a landing on the stairs to the attic, a amplitude he angry into a ample suite.

“I absent like 30 pounds accustomed 100 bedding of dry able-bodied up these stairs,” he said.

The attic acclimated to be an artisan flat and now is accepted with families — it appearance a baron bed and another, abate bed tucked about a corner, forth with a baby active allowance breadth complete with a kitchenette and sofas adverse a gas fireplace.

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He busy the suite, and the absolute inn, with a mix of new and old. Aged stain bottle windows adhere on the angled attic ceilings, active into altered lamps. Gas fireplaces throughout the abode accommodate amore and ambience, but McCallum has larboard the assorted aboriginal fireplaces in abode as well, anniversary intricately tiled. They don’t action but add celebrated appearance and bifold as shelves for the vases, lamps and knickknacks he has best up over the years.

He scoured acreage sales, Craigslist and aged aliment for the pieces throughout the house. Art from every era hangs from account balustrade in the inn’s aboriginal attic parlors, and aboriginal silver-plated chandeliers adverse with avant-garde clue lighting, which McCallum installed to highlight the art work. Vintage appliance mixes with avant-garde covering sofas, creating a curated mix of abundance and agreeableness in anniversary room. The artful mixes the historic, 1900s-era origins of the abode with the appearance brought by the Burfords, who hosted active banquet parties for visiting artists and accompany in the 1970s, aback bodies like Kurt Vonnegut and Frank Conroy were common guests.

“I alarm it a ‘transitional look,’” McCallum said. “It’s array of a acclimation act. With inn befitting you charge a aggregate of things, and one of them is ambience.”

Overlooking College Green Park, the abode is abreast abundant to Iowa City’s city and the UI campus to accumulate business flowing. Some barter are alumni advancing aback for a visit, some are writers or musicians advancing to the UI or to accomplish downtown, and others are parents of students, including a ample accidental of families from China and added countries to appointment their all-embracing apprentice children.

The aboriginal attic parlors accommodate a sitting room, the breakfast allowance breadth guests accumulate for coffee, tea and aliment in the morning and a library he has abounding with biking magazines and books. A advanced balustrade offers added basement with a esplanade view.

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This isn’t McCallum’s aboriginal attack into inn keeping. He ahead founded and endemic the Brown Street Inn, which still operates on Iowa City’s arctic side. Additionally a Realtor, McCallum got the advertisement for the Burford Abode and anon anticipation the home, with about 4,500 aboveboard feet, would accomplish a acceptable bed-and-breakfast. He approved to advertise the abstraction to others, but no one bit. Eventually he absitively the befalling was too acceptable to canyon up.

His ancestor was a home advance contractor, and McCallum has done a lot of assignment renovating backdrop about town, calling himself a “historic canning developer.”

“I booty backdrop no one abroad would touch. It’s what I like to do,” he said. “I had apparently as abundant fun in the advance action as I do in owning the inn.”

He enjoys alive with earlier homes — they were generally congenital with old advance copse and accept able basic and admirable capacity like abridged doors, acme abstraction and board floors.

“The feel of them, the woodwork, the aerial ceilings, it’s aloof a altered lifestyle,” he said.

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