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BarndoBuilderList editorial team·Reviewed by Austin Hardcastle, founder

Iowa has 31 listings, 20th of 50. Seventeen Iowa rows are dedicated-page signal, five repeat the mention, and nine say it once. Twenty-four cities appear. Five records have no city. Cedar Falls and Indianola are the only cities with two names.

Des Moines has a single row. Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, and Waterloo have none, so those metro pages are radius searches.

How listings are sorted·Reviewed Oct 15, 2026

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Jensen, Gingerich, and Wick each keep two rows

Jensen Builders Ltd is a construction company with a dedicated page in Fort Dodge (19 reviews) and again in Des Moines (11 reviews). That Des Moines row is the only listing filed under the city Des Moines. Gingerich Post & Frame is a dedicated page in New Hartford, categorized as a construction company with 12 reviews, and a dedicated page in Cedar Falls, categorized as a home builder with no reviews stored. Cedar Falls also has JSB /Post Frame Systems, a repeated-mention construction company with 32 reviews. The slash and the space are part of that stored name.

Wick Buildings is two Iowa rows, both general contractors, both dedicated-page signal, neither with a page link stored. Davenport has 5 reviews. Bettendorf has none. Wisconsin and Illinois have their own Wick rows. Do not collapse the Iowa pair into those files, or into each other.

Radius pages for the thin city fields: Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Iowa City, Waterloo, Sioux City, and Council Bluffs.

A furniture maker, and a capitalization split

Iowa Barn Door Co. in Prairie City is categorized as a furniture maker, with a dedicated page and 45 reviews. That label is not a construction company. Gingerich Structures in Missouri Valley is a construction company with a dedicated page and 64 reviews, the most in this file, and a different name from Gingerich Post & Frame.

Eighteen listings use the category string Construction company. Koskovich & Murphy Developments in Sioux City is stored as Construction Company, capital C, with a dedicated page and 9 reviews. Council Bluffs is State Line Construction, LLC, a single-mention construction company with 15 reviews. Eastern Iowa Building, Inc. An FBi Buildings Company. in Fairfax is dedicated-page signal, 42 reviews, and no page link. The period after Company is in the stored name.

Pole barn, post-frame, and shop-home

Pole-barn mentions are on 23 Iowa sites. Post-frame mentions are on 21. Shop-home mentions are on 10, a larger shop-home crawl than the metal-building crawl, which is 8. Five dedicated-page signals are missing a page link, including both Wick rows and the Fairfax FBi row.

A shell-kit or dry-in tag shows up on eight Iowa listings, and a farm tag on four. The shell filter is Iowa shell kit.

Planning range $60 to $140

Iowa’s finished band in the 2026 table is $60 to $140 per square foot. Kansas uses the same numbers. Both rows live on cost by state. Gingerich Structures has not given us that pair as a price.

Five map pins have no city. Confirm the shop town, and confirm the county.

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Iowa chains that stay in their own towns

What is actually in Des Moines?
One listing: Jensen Builders Ltd, a construction company with a dedicated page and 11 reviews. The same name also has a Fort Dodge row with 19 reviews. Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, and Waterloo have no city-field listings.
Where are the Iowa Wick rows?
Davenport and Bettendorf. Both are general contractors in the dedicated-page group, and neither stores a page link. Davenport has 5 reviews. Wick rows in Wisconsin and Illinois are separate listings.
Who has the most Iowa reviews?
Gingerich Structures in Missouri Valley, a construction company with a dedicated page and 64 reviews. Iowa Barn Door Co. in Prairie City has 45 and is categorized as a furniture maker.
Which crawl is larger, shop-home or metal building?
Shop-home, on 10 listings. Metal-building mentions are on 8. Pole-barn mentions are on 23 and post-frame mentions are on 21.
Does the Iowa cost row come from these shops?
No. Sixty to 140 dollars per square foot is the planning band. Ask each company what the number includes.
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