Many famous people are associated with these Story County historic places including James Wilson, Gilmour Beyers MacDonald, Louis Hermann Pammel, Otis Briggs, J.L. Budd and William Kennison Wood.
Some of the country's most noteable architects helped create the Story County places including Milens Burt, Stark, N.M., and Company, Iowa State Highway Commission, Nourse & Rasmussen Liebbe, King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing C, Koss Construction Company, Robert G. McDowell, Christian Petersen, Rawson & Souers Proudfoot and G.B. MacDonald. Prominent architectural styles found in Story Country are Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Classical Revival and Italianate.