Snowden House, Italianate architectural building in Waterloo, United States.

Snowden House is a two-storey brick building with a rectangular plan, hip roof, and segmentally arched windows framed by decorative mouldings. The facade displays characteristic Italianate details including bracketed cornices and decorative architectural elements.

Local pharmacist William Snowden built this residence in 1878 with Italianate architectural features. After a fire in 1955, the interior was completely rebuilt and updated.

The Waterloo Women's Club took over the house in 1922 and met there for decades; the 1955 fire led to a complete rebuilding of the interior, so today's rooms date from that reconstruction rather than from William Snowden's 1878 residence. The exterior, with its bracketed eaves and full-length front porch, is the part that survives from the original pharmacist's house.

Snowden House stands at 42.49431, -92.34592 in Waterloo, Iowa, and is reached from the city's downtown street grid. The two-storey brick block and its full-length front porch read best from the sidewalk opposite, where the bracketed eaves and blind oculus sit above eye level. The interior was rebuilt after the 1955 fire, so the street view is the reliable way to see the 1878 exterior.

The rear wing was added later than the 1878 main block, and the interior seen today dates from a complete rebuilding after a 1955 fire. The brick exterior, with its bracketed eaves and full-length front porch, kept the Italianate form William Snowden gave the house.