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Davenport, Iowa
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Davenport was founded on May 14,1836 by Antoine Le Claire and was named for his friend, George Davenport, a colonel during the Black Hawk War stationed at nearby Fort Armstrong. According to the 2010 census, the city had a population of 99,685, located approximately halfway between Chicago and Des Moines, Davenport is on the border of Iowa and Illinois. The city is prone to frequent flooding due to its location on the Mississippi River, there are two main universities, Saint Ambrose University and Palmer College of Chiropractic, which is where the first chiropractic adjustment took place. Several annual music festivals take place in Davenport, including the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, The Mississippi Valley Fair, an internationally known 7-mile foot race called the Bix 7 is run during the festival. The city has a Class A minor league team, the Quad Cities River Bandits. Davenport has 50 plus parks and facilities, as well as over 20 miles of paths for biking or walking. Four interstates and two major United States Highways serve the city, Davenport has seen steady population growth since its incorporation, with an exception being the 1980s, when the population decreased due to job loss. The Quad Cities was ranked as the most affordable metropolitan area in 2010 by Forbes, in 2007, Davenport, along with neighboring Rock Island, won the City Livability Award in the small-city category from the U. S. In 2012, Davenport as well as the Quad Cities Metropolitan Area was ranked among the areas in the nation in the growth of high-tech jobs. The current mayor of Davenport is Frank Klipsch, the land was originally owned by the Sauk people, Meskwaki, and Ho-Chunk – indigenous peoples of the Americas. In 1803 France sold it to the United States under the Louisiana Purchase, lieutenant Zebulon Pike was the first United States representative to officially visit the Upper Mississippi River area. On August 27,1805, Pike camped on the present day site of Davenport, in 1832, a group of Sauk, Meskwaki, and Kickapoo people were defeated by the United States in the Black Hawk War. The United States government then concluded the Black Hawk Purchase, sometimes called the Forty-Mile Strip or Scotts Purchase, the purchase was made for $640,000 on September 21,1832 and contained an area of some 6 million acres, at a price equivalent to 11 cents/acre. Although named after the defeated chief Black Hawk, he was being held prisoner at the time, the purchase was therefore agreed to by Sauk chief Keokuk, who had remained neutral in the war. It was made on the site of present-day Davenport, army General Winfield Scott and Governor of Illinois, John Reynolds, acted on behalf of the United States, with the future Davenport founder, half-Native, Antoine Le Claire serving as translator. Chief Keokuk gave a portion of land to Antoine Le Claires wife, Marguerite. Antoine built their home on the spot where the agreement was signed. Antoine did so, finishing the Treaty House in the spring of 1833, Davenport was established on May 14,1836 by Le Claire, and named after his friend Colonel George Davenport, who was stationed at Fort Armstrong during the war
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Iowa
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Iowa is a U. S. state in the Midwestern United States, bordered by the Mississippi River on the east and the Missouri River and the Big Sioux River on the west. Surrounding states include Wisconsin and Illinois to the east, Missouri to the south, Nebraska and South Dakota to the west, in colonial times, Iowa was a part of French Louisiana and Spanish Louisiana, its state flag is patterned after the flag of France. After the Louisiana Purchase, people laid the foundation for an economy in the heart of the Corn Belt. Iowa is the 26th most extensive in area and the 30th most populous of the 50 United States. Its capital and largest city by population is Des Moines, Iowa has been listed as one of the safest states in which to live. Its nickname is the Hawkeye State, Iowa derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many Native American tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa is bordered by the Mississippi River on the east, the Missouri River and the Big Sioux River on the west, Iowa is the only state whose east and west borders are formed entirely by rivers. Iowa has 99 counties, but 100 county seats because Lee County has two, the state capital, Des Moines, is in Polk County. Iowas bedrock geology generally increases in age from west to east, in northwest Iowa, Cretaceous bedrock can be 74 million years old, in eastern Iowa Cambrian bedrock dates to c.500 million years ago. Iowa is generally not flat, most of the consists of rolling hills. Iowa can be divided into eight landforms based on glaciation, soils, topography, Loess hills lie along the western border of the state, some of which are several hundred feet thick. Northeast Iowa along the Mississippi River is part of the Driftless Zone, consisting of steep hills, several natural lakes exist, most notably Spirit Lake, West Okoboji Lake, and East Okoboji Lake in northwest Iowa. To the east lies Clear Lake, man-made lakes include Lake Odessa, Saylorville Lake, Lake Red Rock, Coralville Lake, Lake MacBride, and Rathbun Lake. The states northwest area has remnants of the once common wetlands. Iowas natural vegetation is tallgrass prairie and savanna in areas, with dense forest and wetlands in flood plains and protected river valleys. Most of Iowa is used for agriculture, crops cover 60% of the state, grasslands cover 30%, as of 2005 Iowa ranked 49th of U. S. states in public land holdings. Endangered or threatened plants include western prairie fringed orchid, eastern prairie fringed orchid, Meads milkweed, prairie bush clover, the explosion in the number of high-density livestock facilities in Iowa has led to increased rural water contamination and a decline in air quality. Iowa has a continental climate throughout the state
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Contributing property
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Government agencies, at the state, national, and local level in the United States, have differing definitions of what constitutes a contributing property but there are common characteristics. Local laws often regulate the changes that can be made to contributing structures within designated historic districts, the first local ordinances dealing with the alteration of buildings within historic districts was in Charleston, South Carolina in 1931. Properties within a district fall into one of two types of property, contributing and non-contributing. A contributing property, such as a 19th Century mansion, helps make a historic district historic, while a non-contributing property, such as a medical clinic. The contributing properties are key to a districts historic associations, historic architectural qualities. A property can change from contributing to non-contributing and vice versa if significant alterations take place, the ordinance declared that buildings in the district could not have changes made to their architectural features visible from the street. By the mid-1930s, other U. S. cities followed Charlestons lead, an amendment to the Louisiana Constitution led to the 1937 creation of the Vieux Carre Commission, which was charged with protecting and preserving the French Quarter in the city of New Orleans. The city then passed an ordinance that set standards regulating changes within the quarter. Other sources, such as the Columbia Law Review in 1963, the Columbia Law Review gave dates of 1925 for the New Orleans laws and 1924 for Charleston. The same publication claimed that two cities were the only cities with historic district zoning until Alexandria, Virginia adopted an ordinance in 1946. The National Park Service appears to refute this, in 1939, the city of San Antonio, Texas, enacted an ordinance that protected the area of La Villita, which was the citys original Mexican village marketplace. In 1941 the authority of local controls on buildings within historic districts was being challenged in court. In City of New Orleans vs Pergament Louisiana state appellate courts ruled that the design, beginning in the mid-1950s, controls that once applied to only historic districts were extended to individual landmark structures. The United States Congress adopted legislation that declared the Georgetown neighborhood in Washington, by 1965,51 American communities had adopted preservation ordinances. By 1998, more than 2,300 U. S. towns, contributing properties are defined through historic district or historic preservation zoning laws, usually at the local level. Zoning ordinances pertaining to historic districts are designed to maintain a historic character by controlling demolition and alteration to existing properties. It can be any property, structure or object that adds to the integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic district, either local or federal. Definitions vary but, in general, they maintain the same characteristics, another key aspect of a contributing property is historic integrity
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E. P. Adler House
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Adler House, is a c. 1910 historic house located in the central part of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983. It has been on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties since 2008, emmanuel P. Adler became a printer’s apprentice at the age of 13. He was working in the department of the Ottumwa Courier when he was discovered by the paper’s publisher A. W. Lee. Adler became a reporter for the Courier and was sent to Davenport as the business manager of the Davenport Times. When Lee died in 1907, Adler took over as president of the Lee Syndicate, now known as Lee Enterprises, under Adler’s guidance the company grew to include newspapers, radio and television stations. After the Bank Holiday in 1933 Adler was instrumental in reopening American Commercial and Savings Bank as Davenport Bank, by 1936 the bank had grown to become the second largest bank in Iowa. Adler House is located set back from Main Street on a low terraced lot and it exhibits a mixture of the Colonial Revival and Prairie School architectural styles. The Colonial Revival features includes its symmetrical five-bay main façade, a roof with dormers, and a main entrance that is framed by sidelights. The entrance is surrounded by a shallow curved pediment with engaged columns. The Prairie style is represented by wide eaves with stylized projecting rafter ends and the combination of brick and stucco surface materials
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Frank & John Bredow House
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The Frank & John Bredow House is a historic home located in the Hamburg Historic District in Davenport, Iowa, United States. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, the house was individually listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 2000. John T. and Anna Bredow were both born in Schleswig-Holstein in 1825 and their eldest son, John F. was born there in 1853. The family immigrated to Kiel, Wisconsin about the same time and their sons Frank and Gerhard were born in Wisconsin. In 1870 the family moved to Davenport, where John T. operated a tavern and he built the family home on Gaines Street around 1876. His son John F. married Bertha Krieger in 1883 they had a daughter, Rhoda, the three lived with John T. and Anna in the house on Gaines Street. The other sons had moved elsewhere, John F. worked for the German Savings Bank for 25 years. He became president of Iowa Mantle Manufacturing Co. and then president of Hydraulic Concrete Construction Co, the elder Bredows died around 1896, and John F. and his family continued to live in the house until 1920, when they moved to West Fourth Street. At some point after they moved the home was divided into apartments, by 2005 the house had been vacant for 20 years, it was boarded up, part of its roof was missing and it was slated for demolition by the city. Volunteers from the Gateway Redevelopment Group and the Davenport HAPPEN program renovated the structure into a family home
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Claim House (Davenport, Iowa)
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Claim House is a property in Davenport, Iowa, United States that was nominated for, but not listed, on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, with reference number 83004790. The property was covered in a 1982 study of Davenport MRA and/or its 1983 follow-on and its NRHP listing status is DP, which means DATE RECEIVED/PENDING OWNER OBJECTION. It was listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties on October 7,1992, at that time the property was on land that had not yet been open to white settlement. The claim was made when the Sauk and Meskwaki tribes were being forced to surrender their lands following the Black Hawk War, the house was constructed of materials brought from Cincinnati, Ohio by way of the Mississippi River. The original structure stood at 18 feet square, with subsequent additions including a leanto kitchen, when looking at the front of the house there is a batten between the first and second widows from the left. The original house is to the right of the batten, a brick chimney replaces the original which was constructed of stone. The furthest window on the side of the house was originally a door into the house. In 1867 the house was dismantled and moved from its location to its present location
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Collins House (Davenport, Iowa)
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The Collins House is located on the eastside of Davenport, Iowa, United States. The Classical Revival residence has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1976, built as a farmhouse in 1860 the city of Davenport purchased the property and renovated it for a senior center in the mid 1970s. Miles Augustus Collins was born in Albany, New York on September 1,1832, when he was four years old his family moved to a farm near Blanford, Massachusetts where he was raised. He remained there until 1854 when he moved to Scott County, after a year he started farming and started the first cheese factory in the county. They were also among the first cheese makers in the state of Iowa and he owned several farms and became quite adept at real estate. He moved to his farm in 1860. On June 15,1870 he married Amy Wilson, who was a widow and he died in his home on June 5,1908. The Collins family continued to own the house until 1963 when it was sold to the Davenport Park Board for their use and they had a stipulation that the remaining sisters could live in the house rent free until their deaths. Beginning in 1977 the Davenport Parks and Recreation Department in a joint venture with the Center for Active Seniors, over the years it has also housed a senior activity center, a place with recreational programming for special needs people, and as a summer youth activities center. On May 2,2015 the house opened as the Southeast Iowa Senior Information Hub, Information that the center provides includes health care, Social Security, transportation, finances and senior housing that ranges from private to assisted living. They also provide monthly programs centered on the concerns of seniors, the house was originally a three-bay, square structure. Several additions were made to the structure over the years, the pantry, kitchen, and dining room were added to the back of the house in 1870. The full porch was added to the front of the house in 1908, the two-story frame structure is essentially Classical Revival in style. It features Greek Revival derivative window hoods and a belvedere on top of the hipped roof. The house is situated on the edge of Garfield Park along the Duck Creek Parkway, a handicap ramp and a new porch were added to the rear of the house when it was renovated into a senior resource center
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Credit Island
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Credit Island is an island in the Mississippi River on the south west side of Davenport, Iowa within the Quad Cities area. Its name was derived by the use of the island as an early Indian trading post, Credit could be obtained on the promise of hides and skins to be delivered at a later time - hence Credit Island. It was listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties February 3,1999 and we gave them three shots from the six pounder. At two the Feuille or Leaf with fifty Sioux arrived on their way to join the expedition, shortly after, forty Renards arrived for the same purpose. I gave them fifteen loaves of bread and sent to procure a beef that I knew was for sale, I then inquired of Mr Brisbois, from whom I have had every assistance he could possibly give, even to the distressing of his own family. He furnished a pair of bulls which I gave to the whole of the warriors. The Feuille heard this too late to authorize him to take the Renard. The Feuille does not understand the Renard language himself but this was interpreted to him time after passing the Renard canoe. Sunday August 28 — Gave the Feuille ten bushels of wheat to take him with the Renards to the Rock River, a young lad of this place by the name of Antoine du Bois volunteered his service and embarked with the Sioux interpreter. I gave the Feuille a few articles he was absolutely in want of, wrote a note to Capt Grignon to prepare himself to go off express to Mackinaw to-morrow at ten oclock. Monday August 29 — Finished the dispatches at ten and Capt Grignon being detained in expectation of Mr Antoine Brisbois arriving from below, american Major Taylor led a force of more than 350 U. S. regulars and militia to relieve Prairie du Chien and evacuate the garrison. When Taylors command reached the Rock River on the evening of September 4 and that night, Black Hawk attacked Taylors pickets and killed two of his men. At dawn, Taylor was preparing to land when three British guns opened fire on his boats, under heavy fire, Taylor withdrew downstream, with a further loss of 11 men wounded. The following is Black Hawks recollection of Campbells Island and they landed by running hard aground and lowered their sail. This boat the Great Spirit gave to us, all that could, hurried aboard, but they were unable to push off, being fast aground. We advanced to the rivers bank undercover, and commenced firing on the boat, I encouraged my braves to continue firing. Several guns were fired from the boat, but without effect, I prepared my bow and arrows to throw fire to the sail, which was lying on the boat. After two or three attempts, I succeeded in setting it on fire, the boat was soon in flames
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Davenport City Hall
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Davenport City Hall is the official seat of government for the city of Davenport, Iowa, United States. The building was constructed in 1895 and is situated on the northeast corner of the intersection of Harrison Street and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 1993. Davenport started to outgrow its previous city hall, which had built on Brady Street from 1857-1858. The role of city government expanded during the administration of Henry Vollmer. Among his major achievements were several public works projects, streets were paved in the older sections of the city and developers laid out new subdivisions around the perimeter. In 1895, in the midst of a national economic depression. The cost was about $90,000 — an astronomical sum at that time —, the bulk of the funds came from a new state law which applied to the citys 150 illegal saloons and amounted to around $50,000 per year. This tax allowed for not only of City Hall, but also paved streets and a new sewer system, and from 1902–08. Besides Vollmer there were two other noteworthy Davenport mayors associated with city hall. Alfred C. Mueller served the city during two separate periods and he was responsible for initiating the citys building code, sewer planning and construction, street paving, and planning and implementing improvements to the riverfront. Barewald was the citys first Socialist mayor and they were also opposed to the Republican Partys support for national prohibition of alcohol so they threw their support behind the Socialist Party of America. Two years prior to Barewalds election as mayor two Socialists were elected as aldermen and they were reelected in 1920, during his term as mayor Barewald began several public works projects that put people to work and enhanced city improvements. The municipal natatorium was built, new streets were opened and a sewer was completed. Barewald and the other two Socialists were overwhelmingly voted out of office in 1922 because of the debts these projects, the prohibition of alcohol was a major issue in the city of Davenport from the 1840s until national prohibition became official in 1919. The activities of the temperance movement thrived in the 1880s and were renewed during the Progressive Era. Local ordinances were passed that exempted the city of Davenport from state laws and mayors, especially Ernst Claussen. Debates were held in the city council and among other groups until Iowas prohibition amendment was passed in 1916. It was reinforced by the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1919, however, the illegal production and consumption of alcohol continued in the city
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Dillon Memorial
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The Dillon Memorial is located in LeClaire Park, near downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and it is commonly referred to as the Dillon Fountain. The structure memorializes John Forrest Dillon who was a Davenport attorney, an Iowa Supreme Court Justice, a bequest after his death on May 6,1914, specified the construction and location of the fountain. The memorial anchors the end of Main Street and faces the Civil War Monument twelve blocks to the north on top of the bluff. It was also meant to be a point and dramatic terminus for the street. Like the Civil War Monument, Main Street surrounded the Dillon Memorial, when the memorial was constructed from 1918 to 1919 there were no other structures on the south side of River Drive. The memorial was part of a riverfront development program by the Levee Improvement Commission along with Union Station. It was at time that the name of Riverfront Park was changed to LeClaire Park. In 1922 the Municipal Natatorium was built on the west side of the street from the memorial, the Lend-a-Hand building was also listed on the NRHP. In the late 20th century the memorial returned to its state when the other two structures were torn down. Main Street was then closed south of River Drive and the area was incorporated into LeClaire Park in 1997, at that time the brick plaza was built around the fountain. The Davenport Levee Improvement Commission sponsored a competition for the memorial. New York artists Franklin and Arthur Ware won the competition and designed the memorial in association with Paul Schultz, the Dillon Memorial is a Neoclassical structure built in concrete. The style is typical of monuments and public buildings that were built at the time and it also reflected Arthur Wares training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The monument is an upright, fluted column surrounded by a circular basin, a lantern sits on top of a platform capital. Bas-relief panels of lion heads and garland swags decorate the base of the column, there is also a bas-relief likeness of Judge Dillon on the column
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Palmer College of Chiropractic
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Palmer College of Chiropractic is the founding college of chiropractic and is located in Davenport, Iowa. It was established in 1897 by Daniel David Palmer and is considered The Fountainhead, the colleges name was originally the Palmer School and Cure and later became the Palmer School of Chiropractic. Most early chiropractic schools were founded by Palmer alumni, the Palmer School of Chiropractic was begun by D. D. Palmer, who is the Founder of Chiropractic. D. D. s son Dr. B. J. Palmer is the Developer of Chiropractic because he greatly expanded the scope of the school and laid the foundation for the campus and he assumed responsibility of the Palmer School of Chiropractic in 1904. Dr. Dave, as he was known, modernized the campus, established non-profit status for the college, the college opened campuses in San Jose, California in 1980 and in Port Orange, Florida in 2002. The College was once encompassed by the Palmer Chiropractic University System, while it is no longer a university system, Palmer is one college with three campuses, with the main campus located in Davenport, Iowa, and branch campuses. The College is a non-profit organization governed by a single Board of Trustees, the main campus of Palmer College of Chiropractic is located at 1000 Brady Street in Davenport, Iowa. This is the school founded by Daniel David Palmer in 1897. The campus is located on a bluff in the Mississippi Valley area overlooking the Mississippi River and it is only blocks away from the location of the first chiropractic adjustment performed by D. D. The College is currently led by Chancellor Dennis Marchiori, D. C, ph. D. whose office is located on campus. The Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research was established in 1995 and is located on the Davenport, Iowa campus in the William. The Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research is the largest and most highly funded research effort in the educational community. The campus consists of new as well as historic buildings, other buildings include the David D. Palmer Health Sciences Library, the Memorial Building, Campus Center, B. J. and Mabel Palmer Residence, Vickie Anne Palmer Hall, among others. The Port Orange, Fla. campus is the newest branch of Palmer College of Chiropractic and it was opened in 2002 at 4777 City Center Parkway, in Port Orange, Florida. The campus is led by President Peter Martin, D. C. The campus in Port Orange was founded in 2002 by James E. Hether, the San Jose, Calif. campus houses laboratory learning facilities and related technologies, including a gross anatomy lab with a ceiling-mounted camera. The adjustive technique lab, physical diagnosis lab and X-ray positioning labs support a variety of hands-on learning. The Library/Resource Center holds more than 35,000 volumes and has a collection of 9,000 journals
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German American Heritage Center
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The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The German American Heritage Center was incorporated in 1994, and the board of directors purchased the Standard Hotel on the Davenport riverfront in 1995, the building was built by John Brus and opened in 1862 as the Germania House, a gasthaus, for immigrants. In 1876 it was bought by John Frederick Miller and renamed the Miller Hotel and he was a German immigrant who had been a manufacturer in the city since the 1850s. Miller also operated the restaurant, billiard room and saloon in the hotel until 1889, the hotel was used at this time by Scott County farmers when they came to Davenport. The hotels name was changed several times in the 20th-century and it became the Arcade Hotel around 1906, the Henry Blessing Boarding House around 1917, and the Standard Hotel from 1924 to 1995. The retail space on the floor was occupied by various tenants over the years. In 1983, the building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, in 2009, extensive renovations to the center were completed with enhanced multimedia and exhibit spaces. The building is an example of high Victorian commercial architecture in Davenport. Of particular merit is the cornice that was apparently added by John Miller. The original store fronts had been removed and were restored in the 2009 renovation, the eastern most bay, where the hotels main entrance was located, is more decorative than the other six and is below the cornice arch. GAHC. org Preserve America site for Davenport Transportation Enhancements Image Library Images from the Restoration of the German American Heritage Center FindTheData. org
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Hamburg Historic District (Davenport, Iowa)
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Hamburg Historic District is a residential neighborhood located on a bluff northwest of downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It is listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties and on the National Register of Historic Places, the historic district is where the city’s middle and upper income German community lived in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Germans were the largest ethnic group to settle in Davenport, Hamburg is located to the northwest of Davenports central business district. The neighborhood itself goes as far north as Locust Street and to the west as far as Division Street, the historic districts boundaries were reduced to the section between Fifth and Ninth and Ripley and Vine. It includes the highest concentration of buildings and some of the best examples of architectural styles in the neighborhood. The Mississippi River is located five blocks to the south, there is a gradual slope to the land as one travels to the north. After the alley north of Fifth Street it dramatically rises into a bluff and it peaks at about Seventh Street and descends less dramatically to Ninth Street. The southern part of this provides a prominent view of the cityscape. For this reason it became a location for the middle. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad tracks built along Fifth Street are yet another boundary for the area, the north side of Sixth Street that extends from Ripley Street to Gaines Street is known as the Gold Coast. German immigrants started moving into the city in numbers starting in the late 1840s. In 1848,250 Germans came to Davenport and by 1850, German immigration remained strong through the 1880s. The Iowa census of 1890 showed that a quarter of Scott Countys residents were natives of Germany, a disproportionate number of those immigrants came from Schleswig-Holstein, which was in a border and personal rights dispute with Denmark in the 1840s. German “free thinkers” from the two states were leaving in large numbers and many came to Davenport and their political and philosophical thinking tended to be anti-clerical and secular. It would eventually dominate Davenport politics and set the city apart from communities of size in the Midwest. Other German immigrants to Davenport came from Bavaria, Hamburg, Hanover, Davenport’s small Hungarian community, refugees from the revolution against Austria in the 1840s, generally lived in the German neighborhoods, as well. Initially, the citizens of Davenport resented the large numbers of Germans coming to the city. They were also opposed to separate German societies, schools, cultural organizations, supporting the Temperance movement was one way opponents expressed anti-German sentiments
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Hillside (Davenport, Iowa)
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Hillside, also known as the Charles Schuler House, is a mansion overlooking the Mississippi River on the eastside of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1982. It is also a property in the Prospect Park Historic District. The house was designed by prominent Davenport architect Frederick G. Clausen, Schuler owned Schuler Coal, which operated coal mines in southern Illinois, Iowa, Colorado and Wyoming. He was also involved in the lumber and construction businesses and the president of other companies. He is credited as being one of the businessmen that helped Davenport grow from a city to an important commercial center in the first part of the 20th century. The house remained in the Schuler family until the 1950s, hillside is considered a locally significant example of the Georgian Revival style. The houses design does not reflect the features that were common in contemporary Victorian architecture. The 2½-story mansion is a structure built on a limestone foundation. It follows a plan that features projecting semicircular bays or rectangular pavilions at the corners on the east and west sides. The home features a porte-cochere on the side and porches on the east and west sides of the building. There is a porch that faces the side that runs the length of the house whose floors are of hand-made mosaic tile. There is also a two-level projecting pavilion, the part of which was enclosed in the 1920s. The front columns are 30 feet in height and feature fluted Ionic capitals, all of the secondary columns on the house are 15 feet high. The structure is capped by a hipped roof with roof dormers that feature semicircular pediments above round arch windows. At the roof line is a copper cornice, the interior of the home features many of original architectural features, which include stained glass, three fireplaces, tapestry walls, pocket doors and mahogany woodwork. The house is situated on a lot at the top of a bluff with a commanding view of the river
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Hose Station No. 1
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The Hose Station No.1 is an historic building located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, davenport’s first city charter in 1839 permitted the town’s trustees to establish a fire department. Not long after all the residents of the town were required to two buckets for fire protection. It wasn’t until 1856 that volunteers were organized into the Independent Fire Engine and Hose Company, in the following years a dozen other volunteer companies were formed, and a system of water mains and fire hydrants were put in that allowed for modern fire-fighting techniques. Hose Station No.1 was built in 1877 and the year it housed the Fire King Engine 2nd Hose Company. In 1878 the team known as Hose Company No.1 when it became a paid unit. Hose Station No.1 was replaced by the Central Fire Station when it opened in 1902, in 1912 St. Alphonsus Catholic Church in Davenport purchased the station’s old bell and placed it in the new church building that was under construction at the time. The building itself became the house of Battery B, First Artillery Inc. a group of National Guard veterans who served in the 1916 Mexican border campaign. The building, which had fallen into disrepair, was renovated in the late 20th century, Hose Station No.1 was designed by Davenport architect John W. Ross. He is known for his civic designs, Davenport City Hall. Hose Station No.1 is an Italianate structure built of red brick on a stone foundation, the rectangular structure has a central tower on the west elevation. The Italianate features of the building are the second floor windows with their shape, flat arch hoods. The tower combines heavily hooded windows and there is a decorative brickwork cornice across the façade, firefighting equipment was stored behind two large doors on the main level of the building. The second floor provided space for the firefighters. The tower was designed so the fire hoses could be hung to dry, the words “Fire King” were displayed on the tower above the door
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Hose Station No. 4
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Hose Station No.4 is located in the Village of East Davenport in Davenport, Iowa, United States. It is a property of the Davenport Village Historic District that has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1980. The fire station was listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 1993. It is one of two old fire stations on the east side of the city that are still in existence, the other one is Hose Station No.3. The building sits adjacent to Lindsay Park and now houses the International Fire Museum, the first group of volunteer firefighters in Davenport were organized in 1856 and called the Independent Fire Engine and Hose Company. The city’s first fire house, Hose Station No,1, was built on Perry Street in 1877 for the Fire King Engine 2nd Hose Company. In the first decades of the 20th century the city built other small stations throughout the city such as Hose Station No.4. The Davenport Fire Antique & Restoration Society was formed by four members of the Davenport Fire Department in 1984 and they acquired Hose Station No.4 and opened the museum in 1986. The museum contains artifacts and photographs pertaining to firefighting throughout the world and it includes a 1951 Mack pumper from Riverdale, Iowa. The station was designed in the Italianate style and it features a rectangular plan, hipped roof covered in tile and a short tower in back where the hoses dried. The red brick exterior features quoined corners in brick, a single pair of fire-house doors, behind which the firefighting equipment was stored, fronted Eleventh Street. The pedestrian entrance was along the side of the building, two large rectangular windows are above the fire-house doors and a dormer is on the roof above the main façade
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Indian Springs Park (Davenport, Iowa)
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Indian Springs Park is a public park located on the east side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. The park is located on 3 acres in a natural depression north of East River Drive, the land was donated to the city in 1921 by Mrs. D. N. Richardson with the expressed purpose of creating a park. The property contains a spring that was used by Native Americans, from which the park derives its name, the spring itself was capped in 1929 and a pipe 6 inches in diameter directs the water into a storm drain. During the high season in the spring the parks basin fills with spring water. The park, which is undeveloped, has served as a play area for the neighborhood children and students from neighboring Hoover Elementary School. The park is a property in the Village of East Davenport Historic District. It was added to the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 2005
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Iowa Reform Building
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Iowa Reform Building is a historic building located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, the Iowa Reform was a newspaper that started publication in Davenport in 1884 by Adolph Petersen. Members of the Petersen family were the publishers and editors of the paper from its inception until it ceased publication and they included Adolph and his brother Gerhard, and they were followed by Robert Petersen. Adolph Petersen lived in the apartment above the shop, the paper initially carried a strong Democratic point of view, but eventually went independent. It was a publication that served the German community of the Tri-City area. The Reforms peak circulation was 4,000 in 1912, unlike other German publications it survived the anti-German sentiments that resulted from World War I. By 1939 it was the only German language paper left in Iowa, however, it could not survive those same sentiments that resulted from World War II and the paper folded in 1943. The building itself was built for the Iowa Reform in the heart of the German commercial district on the west side of downtown Davenport, the building has housed various commercial enterprises since the newspaper folded. The Iowa Reform Building is a structure that is built of brick on a stone foundation. Its English basement is a unique feature, the workrooms and press rooms for the newspaper were located here and the large windows allowed natural light and ventilation to the basement. The storefront features cast-iron columns and two entrances that are accessed by steps and handrails. All are believed to be original to the building, the widows of the storefront were altered in a 1998 renovation. The buildings second floor is defined by the placement of stone banding above, above the top banding is the buildings cornice. The bottom part of the cornice is built of brick and it is topped by a metal cornice that features an egg. Pages that reflect Davenport’s newspaper history, Democrat Building Clarissa C
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Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home
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Annie Turner Wittenmyer was a Sanitation Agent for Iowa whose job was to oversee the needs of Union Army soldiers during the American Civil War. Iowa contributed approximately 76,237 men to the army, and one of them wrote a letter saying, but we prefer you should forget us. If you will but look after our wives and children, our mothers and sisters, who are dependent upon us for support. Succor them, the letter was read at a convention after which a board was convened to create a residence for the orphans of Iowa soldiers. Wittenmyer, a trustee and Board member, managed to raise money for the construction of the home with some donations reaching $500. After the Civil War ended, over 13,500 children were in need of assistance as a result of the war deaths of Iowans—with many more badly wounded. An orphans fair was held asking branches be built in three different Iowa cities and Farmington was soon considered inadequate to the Davenport home, Davenport was a center for Union volunteer units and after the War ended, soldier camps were not needed. Camp Kinsman was donated to be used for the home, on November 11,1865, the Iowa Soldiers Orphans Home received its first occupants by steamboat, when 150 children were delivered to matron Annie Wittenmyers care. On June 6,1866, the home was taken over by the State of Iowa, eventually the Civil War orphans were grown and left the Home. From 1870, the home began to accept children from all Iowa 99 counties, the Home was soon expanded and redesigned with small, home-like cottages replacing the barrack style dorms. In 1876, the Iowa State Legislature required that residents have employment before they left the home, in the interest of the residents, starting in 1890, the Home was given custody of the children, so as to help place the children in good homes. The Home functioned on its own and was part of the community. The Orphans Band began marching in parades and gave concerts starting in the early 1900s, in 1949, the facility was renamed The Annie Wittenmyer Home by the Iowa State Legislature. In 1960, the focus of the home shifted from that of orphanage to a special education. In 1975, the Wittenmyer Home closed having helped an estimated 12,000 children, from 1976 until November 2005, the Administration Building became a branch of the Davenport Public Library until the new Fairmount Branch was opened in January 2006. The historic district is made up of 25 resources, which includes 22 buildings and it is located on the east side of the city to the south of Garfield Park and the Duck Creek Parkway, which are across East 29th Street. Oakdale Memorial Gardens where the graves are located is to the east across Eastern Avenue. The former right of way for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad is to the west, the railroad right of way is still active and in use by another railroad company. John P. Irish, trustee Map of the complex
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School Number 6 (Davenport, Iowa)
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School Number 6 is an historic building located in Davenport, Iowa, United States. The building was completed in 1903 and it was later renamed Jackson School and served the public school district into the 1940s. From 1943 to 1964 the building served as a school for Holy Family Catholic Church. Since then it has been an office building, in 2010 the building was purchased by Renaissance Realty Group of Chicago to renovate into housing for senior citizens. It has been divided into 48 apartments and is called The Jackson Renaissance and they previously renovated the historic Taylor School in Davenport. The former Jackson School building was listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties, media related to Former Jackson School at Wikimedia Commons
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Christian Jipp Home & Grocery
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The Christian Jipp Home & Grocery is a historic structure located in the Hamburg Historic District in Davenport, Iowa, United States. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, the house and grocery was individually listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 2005. The grocery store was completed in 1868 by Christian Jipp, an immigrant from present-day Germany and it was one of the first retail buildings that was built on the bluff in Davenport. Jipp, his wife and three lived in the back of the store until the house was added in 1878. He operated the store until 1906 and the store remained open until 1958 when it was converted into a laundromat. The building now serves as the Architectural Rescue Shop, which collects, restores, preserves, there is also an apartment on the second floor of the structure
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Antoine LeClaire House
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The Antoine LeClaire House, located on the east side of Davenport, Iowa, United States, is a community center that was built as a private home by one of the founders of city of Davenport. It also housed two of Davenports Catholic bishops, the home was constructed in 1855. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, Antoine Le Claire was an interpreter for the U. S. Government stationed at Fort Armstrong on Rock Island on the Mississippi River. In 1832 he was the interpreter for the treaty signing between the Sac and Meskwaki tribes and the United States after the Black Hawk War, the tribes gave Le Claire two parcels of land in Iowa, one at the top of the Rock Island Rapids and one below. The lower parcel became part of the city of Davenport, which he was instrumental in establishing in 1836, Le Claire became Davenports first citizen. He established the first church, ferry service, steam mill, store, hotel and his philanthropy included the establishment of two other churches, the property for the Scott County Courthouse, and Iowa College, which later became Grinnell College. There is also indication that Le Claire was involved in the Underground Railroad. Le Claire agreed to build his first house on the location where the Black Hawk Treaty was signed and he built a small log structure on the site in 1833 after the treaty was ratified by the United States Senate. It was replaced by a white house that became known as the Treaty House. Le Claire and his wife Marguerite lived in the modest house until 1855 when they built an Italianate mansion in the center of the Le Claire Reserve. The Reserve is one of the parcels deeded to Le Claire by the tribes, the house, and others being built by Davenport’s wealthier citizens, shows the progress the city had made in the twenty years since its founding. Le Claire donated the Treaty House to the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad and it was not only Davenport’s first railroad station, but the first station west of the Mississippi. The house had to be moved from its original location, with his support, the first railroad bridge had been built across the Mississippi and its location was just below his Italianate mansion. It was completed a year after the house, the first locomotive to cross the river was named the Antoine LeClaire. The steamboat Effie Afton struct the bridge and the lawsuit became one of Abraham Lincolns best-known cases. Le Claire and his wife lived in the mansion until they died in 1861 and 1876 respectively, the couple had no children, but they informally adopted his nephew, Louis Antoine Le Claire, after Antoine Le Claire’s half brother Alexis died in 1849. He inherited the property upon their death. The title to the St. Anthonys church property, named Church Square, was deeded by LeClaire to Bishop Mathias Loras of the Diocese of Dubuque in 1839 to support the Catholic Church in Davenport, commercial properties were built on the east side of the block
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Lindsay Park (Davenport, Iowa)
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Lindsay Park is a 31-acre park. Located in the Village of East Davenport in Davenport, Iowa, the whole park was individually listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 1998. Lindsay Park is owned by the city of Davenport and features a playground, baseball diamonds and views of the Mississippi River, there is a group of architectural sculptures along the Riverfront Parkway, of which Lindsay Park is a part. The park also hosts the annual Riverssance Festival of Fine Art, the park served as the parade grounds for the Union Army stationed at Camp McClellan during the American Civil War. Camp McClellan was laid out in August 1861 and it was the largest of the five camps that were in and around the city of Davenport. After the war the area became an area, named McClellan Heights. The park held a Civil War Muster and Mercantile Exposition annually in the 1980s
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The Linograph Company Building
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The Linograph Company Building is located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties and on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009, the building is now known as the RiverWalk Lofts. D. The building was a facility for the company, which made typesetting machines. The company occupied the building until at least 1940, in 1954 The Salvation Army acquired the building, and used it for a variety of purposes, including an Adult Rehabilitation Center, which relocated in 2004. MetroPlains Development of St. Paul, Minnesota bought the building in July 2007, the $8 million project was completed in 2009. The building is a four-story, rectangular structure built of concrete on a concrete foundation, extensions were added to the east of the original structure. Some of the windows were filled in over the years, a loading dock on the south side of the building was covered over at some point. Davenport boasts the following buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. Crescent Warehouse Historic District Archiplanet Listing
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Henry Lischer House
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The Henry Lischer House is a historic home located in the Hamburg Historic District in Davenport, Iowa, United States. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, the house was individually listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 1993. The Italian Villa style home was designed by Davenport architect Frederick G. Clausen, Clausen was married to Henry Lischers daughter Johanna. The home is associated with Henry Lischer, the owner and publisher of one of Davenport’s German-language newspapers Der Demokrat, the paper was founded by Theodor Gülich in November 1851. Lischer and his partner, Theodor Olshausen, bought the paper in 1856, both were German immigrants who became newspapermen in St. Louis, Missouri. At its inception the paper was aligned with the political philosophy, however, it was a “free paper” that was not beholden to party doctrines and supported the right of freedom and human rights. It began to support the positions of the Republican Party and it was opposed to slavery and printed a supportive obituary to abolitionist John Brown. Lischer and Olshausen left Davenport in 1860 to return to St. Louis where they took over the Westliche Post, the new owners of Der Demokrat experienced financial problems as a result of their radical views and the economic downturn as a result of the American Civil War. Lischer, who still had a financial interest in the paper, returned to Davenport, after the Civil War editorials in the paper fought the prohibition of alcohol, which was supported by the Republican Party. Even after the state of Iowa successfully passed laws in 1882. Lischer’s sons continued their father’s work after his death
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John Littig House
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The John Littig House is located on the northwest side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. The Gothic Revival style residence was built in 1867 and has listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984. This stone farmhouse was built by John Littig, a French immigrant who served as the driver for Antoine LeClaire, one of the founders. He had previously worked for Harvey Leonard who was a local contractor and this was the third farm that Littig owned in Scott County, Iowa. It grew to become the largest farm in the county and was known as a show place, the family was noted for their hospitality and their locally produced wines. The City of Davenport bought and renovated the house in the mid-1970s and it serves as a meeting place for qualified organizations. The Gothic Revival style was used extensively in architecture in Davenport. The Littig houses exemplifies how it was used in houses in the city. It utilizes the Gothic roof shape found in the front gable. They are combined on a house that exhibits elements found in the Georgian Revival/Federal and these are found in the symmetry of the five-bay main block. Another neoclassical feature is the structure itself is composed of stone that was plastered. This was even carried out on the wing in the back. The house also features a main entrance that is capped by a transom. The rectangular windows are flush with the exterior walls and are capped with shallow rectangular hoods. There is a window in the front gable
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Marycrest College Historic District
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Marycrest College Historic District is located on a bluff overlooking the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. The district encompasses the campus of Marycrest International University, which was a small, the school closed in 2002 because of financial shortcomings. The campus has been listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties, Marycrest was founded as a Catholic womens college in 1939 by the Congregation of the Humility of Mary at the request of Bishop Henry Rohlman of Davenport. Mother Mary Geraldine Upham, CHM, who had been the congregations Mother Superior at that time, became the schools first president and she had previously founded St. Josephs Junior College, later renamed Ottumwa Heights College, in 1925. Sister Hazel Marie Roth, CHM was the first Dean, initially, Marycrest was organized as a division of St. Ambrose College, and it was incorporated as a separate college in 1954. The North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools independently accredited Marycrest in 1955, St. Ambrose and Marycrest planned to merge in the early 1970s. They chose a new name for the school, Newman College, before the merger was discontinued, Marycrest opened with 76 students in 1939 and it grew to 935 students in 1961, the year that Mother Geraldine died. The facility in the time period grew from 21 members to 67. As early as the mid-1940s, international students were welcomed to the campus, in 1969, educational opportunities were extended to men when the college became coeducational. In 1990, Marycrest College became affiliated with the Teikyo Yamanashi Education and it was networked with Teikyo campuses around the world and its mission was dedicated to international education without prejudice. The institution ended its association with the Catholic Church at this time, though many of the Sisters continued to teach. During the early 1990s, Japanese students formed a part of the enrollment of the university. When Japans economy declined in the mid-1990s, enrollment at Marycrest also declined, in 1996, the institutions name was changed to Marycrest International University. This was an attempt to fully reflect the global mission of the institution. It was also part of an effort to re-market the university in order to boost enrollment, the campus was closed at the end of its 2001–2002 school year, as a result of continued enrollment declines and persistent financial difficulties. Many of the students transferred to nearby schools, including Augustana College in Rock Island. All of the records are now housed at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Marycrest International University was respected for its programs in education, social work
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Dr. Heinrich Matthey House
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The Dr. Heinrich Matthey House is a historic home located in the Hamburg Historic District in Davenport, Iowa, United States. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, the house was individually listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 1993. The Georgian Revival home features a form, a high hipped roof, a Palladian window in the dormer, a symmetrical front with the entrance on the right. On the east side of house is a window bay. The home is associated with Davenport physician Heinrich Matthey and he and his twin brother Carl were born on October 20,1852 to Heinrich and Emilie Matthey in Prussia. When he was 21, Heinrich immigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his parents in 1873 and they moved to Davenport three years later. He joined his father in publishing the Sternan Banner, in 1880 he moved to Sterling, Illinois where he published the Sterling Beobachter. After two years he sold the paper and returned to Germany where he studied medicine in Leipzig and Würzburg and his brother Carl, who had stayed in Germany to study medicine, moved to Davenport and set up his medical practice. Heinrich returned to Davenport upon the completion of his studies and set up his practice, the two brothers merged their practices in 1889. The following year Heinrich married Hilda Mueller, daughter of lumber baron Chris Mueller, Heinrich spent two terms on the school board
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Mississippi Lofts and Adler Theatre
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The Mississippi Lofts and Adler Theatre is an apartment building and theater complex located in downtown Davenport, Iowa. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places by its original name, the Hotel Mississippi was listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 2005. The Hotel Mississippi was the last large-scale hotel to be built in the phase of hotel construction in downtown Davenport after the Davenport Hotel in 1909. Henry Dreyfuss of New York City, who was an art consultant for the RKO chain, designed the theaters interior. The building is situated on the site that was occupied by the Davenport Block, the developer, George Bechtel, was able secure the means for the construction of the hotel during the Great Depression. The building opened in November 1931 with 200 guest rooms and 50 apartments, the ten story building is 119.51 feet high. Businesses such as a shop, drug store, a clothier, realtor, floral shop. Eventually, the became an apartment building. The RKO Orpheum Theater was a 2, 700-seat theater that was built at the time as the hotel. It was Iowas largest movie house, beside movies, entertainers such as John Barrymore, Liberace, Ella Fitzgerald and Pearl Bailey performed in the theater live. The hotel portion of the facility is a ten-story L-shaped brick, the verticality of the building is established by way of the vertically aligned windows that are separated by decorative panels. The Art Deco style is employed throughout the building, including the theater interior, overall, the façade of the building is void of excessive ornamentation. However, the stylized geometry indicative of the Art Deco style is found on the horizontal banding that defines the tenth floor, decorative terra cotta panels with a floral motif are also used to define the mezzanine level of the lower stories. The building had deteriorated over the years and by the 1970s the RKO Orpheum was rarely being used, the last movie shown in the theater was on September 11,1973. In 1981, an effort began to restore the theater, the theater restoration project lasted from 1985 to 1986. The project included restoring the original crystal and glass chandeliers, New carpeting was reproduced in England using a roll of the original floral woolen carpeting that was found during the remodeling project. The renovated theater is a part of the adjacent convention center called the RiverCenter that opened in fall 1983. The convention center connects the Adler Theatre with the Blackhawk Hotel, the theater was renamed the Adler Theatre after E. P
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Fejervary Park
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Fejervary Park is located in the west end of Davenport, Iowa, United States. The 75-acre park is dominated by rolling green hills and trees. It features play ground equipment and an aquatic center, the Putnam Museum is located just to the east of the park. The property for Fejervary Park was given to the city by Celestine Fejérváry and he was a Hungarian nobleman who came to Davenport as a refuge in 1853 following the failure of an insurrection in his native Hungary. The park was the site of Fejervary’s estate and he chose the location for his home because the steep bluffs with a view of the Mississippi River reminded him of his home on the Danube River. The house, which was on the site at the time of the donation, is now gone, all that remains of the buildings is a carriage barn. The park land was acquired by the Davenport Board of Parks Commissioners as part of a city program to public parks throughout the city. Other parks in the program at the time included Vander Veer, Riverview Terrace, a municipal zoo was added to the park in 1909. It became known as Mother Goose Land, patrons would enter the zoo through a large Mother Goose structure. There was also a feature called Monkey Island, the Mother Goose entryway was listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 2007, and the zoo itself closed in 2008
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Municipal Inn
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Municipal Inn is a historic structure located in LeClaire Park along the Mississippi River in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties on March 17,1999 and it is also known as the Levee Inn. According to the records of the citys Levee Improvement Commission, R. D. Ackley was given a 10-year lease for the building on June 14,1927, the city issued a building permit on January 11,1928. The structure was designed by the prominent Davenport architectural firm of Clausen and they had also designed the W. D. Petersen Memorial Music Pavilion and Municipal Stadium, now Modern Woodmen Park, which are also on the riverfront. Other people who have operated a business there include Archie Weindruch, the President Riverboat Casino re-opened it a year later as the Iowa Pork Stop. Shonnie Holmes operated it from 1994 to 1995 as the Levee Inn, the President returned as the operator in 1999 before it closed again. The building has been used over the years for measuring floods on the Mississippi, high-water marks are still on the inn. The 1993 flood came to about the eaves, although small in size, the structure shows the same symmetry, attention to detail and use of ornamentation that Clausen, Kruse & Klein used in their larger buildings. The building follows the clean, angular lines of the Art Moderne style, ornamental bands of tile form intersecting squares and rectangles on the exterior stucco. Originally it featured four concrete urns on each corner of the roof, tiles in blue and orange above the windows are now under a canopy that was added at a later date
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LeClaire Park
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LeClaire Park is a public park located along the Mississippi River in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It is situated two other riverfront parks, Centennial Park on the west and River Heritage Park, a new park that is being developed to the east. The 400-acre park includes monuments, a bandshell, a baseball stadium and it is one of the terminal points for the Davenport Skybridge. The Riverfront Parkway pass through the park, other features of the park include picnic shelters, horseshoe pits and river access for fishing. Moored off the levee is a riverboat casino. LeClaire Park was established on the riverfront during the administration of C. A. In 1911 the Levee Improvement Commission was created and it was responsible for developing the city’s riverfront for recreational, industrial and transportation purposes. It was also to beautify the area, the seawall was extended over a period of years from 1912-1931. LeClaire Park was dramatically improved by the commission from 1912-1914, privately funded additions included the Lend-A-Hand Club building in 1923, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Freight House in 1918 and Union Station in 1924. The President Casino was one of the boats that initiated riverboat gambling in Iowa in the early 1990s, the Lend-A-Hand building and the natatorium have subsequently been torn down. The memorial to Judge John Forrest Dillon was paid for through a bequest, the fountain was originally built in the middle of Main Street and the Lend-A-Hand Club and the natatorium were built on the east and west sides of the street respectively. In 1997 after the buildings were torn down Main Street was closed south of River Drive. Popularly referred to as the LeClaire Park Bandshell, the pavilion was named for William D. Petersen and it annually hosts concerts such as the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival, Festival of Praise as well as other public events. The concession stand was the work of the Davenport architectural firm of Clausen and it opened in 1929 and is used to mark the major floods on the Mississippi. The flood of 1993 nearly reached the buildings eaves, the structure was listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties. The stadium opened as Municipal Stadium on May 26,1931 and it is situated between LeClaire Park on the east and Centennial Park on the west. It has been the home for Davenport based minor league teams, including the Davenport Blue Sox. The current team to occupy the stadium is the Quad City River Bandits and it was also the home field for the St. Ambrose University and Assumption High School athletic programs
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Frederick G. Clausen
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Frederick George Fritz Clausen was a German-born architect who came to the United States in 1869 and founded an architectural practice in Davenport, Iowa. The firm that he founded, presently named Scholtz Gowey Gere Marolf, is still in business today, Clausen has been termed the premier 19th century architect of Davenport, Iowa. Friedrich Georg Clausen was born in Eckernförde, Schleswig, Germany on 1 May 1856. and he was a Fellow of the Western Association of Architects from 1885 to 1889. Following the incorporation of WAA into the American Institute of Architects in 1889, he became a Member of AIA, after his arrival in America, Clausen initially worked as a draftsman for Thomas W. McClelland a local architect of some note. He opened his own firm - F. G, Clausen - in Davenport in 1871, working alone until 1896, and then partnered with Parke Burrows until 1904. When Burrows left, Clausens son Rudolph J. Clausen, joined the company, which then became known as Clausen & Clausen. Clausen retired in 1914, and his son continued in business as Clausen & Kruse with Walter O. Stub Kruse, contributing property in the Hamburg Historic District Northwest Davenport Turner Society Hall,1602 Washington St. Davenport, IA NRHP-listed J. H. C. Davenport, IA NRHP-listed Hillside,1 Prospect Dr. Davenport, IA NRHP-listed J. H. C
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Oakdale Memorial Gardens
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Oakdale Memorial Gardens, formerly Oakdale Cemetery, is located in east-central Davenport, Iowa, United States. It contains a section for the burial of pets called the Love of Animals Petland, in 2015, the cemetery was listed as an historic district on the National Register of Historic Places, and as a local landmark on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties. It is also listed on the Network to Freedom, a National Park Service registry for sites associated with the Underground Railroad. The cemetery board hired Captain George F. de la Roche and it was designed as a rural or garden cemetery, but it transitioned to a landscape-lawn cemetery beginning in the late 19th century. It covers more than 78 acres, some of the graves in the cemetery had been transferred from the overcrowded City Cemetery in the west end. The cemetery is located across Eastern Avenue from the former Iowa Soldiers Orphans Home, there are also at least 11 graves of former slaves who escaped to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad, which led to its inclusion on the Network to Freedom. Two special receiving vaults were built in the cemetery, although neither exists anymore, a brick vault was constructed in 1873 for those who died in the winter when the ground was frozen. A wooden vault was built next to it in 1918 because of the number of deaths as a result of the Spanish flu epidemic. The cemetery entrance is marked by a set of monumental gates, construction of the gates was completed in 1896. The cemetery is home to several private mausoleums. William D. Petersen was the son of J. H. C, Petersen who founded a department store in Davenport that has become Von Maur. He also was responsible for the development of the citys riverfront and his mausoleum was designed in the Gothic Revival style by Davenport architects Rudolph Clausen & Walter Kruse. It was inspired by his wife Saras desire for a similar to the ones she saw in Europe. It was constructed by Presbrey Leland of Valhalla, New York in 1921 for $60,000, the exterior is composed of limestone from Greece. The interior features crypts that were carved from Greek marble and a ceramic tile ceiling that was designed and completed by the Guastavino Tile Company of Woburn, joseph W. Bettendorf was an industrialist for whom the city of Bettendorf, Iowa is named. His mausoleum was built in 1923 in the Egyptian Revival style for $150,000 and its exterior is composed of Barre Granite from Vermont. The interior features crypts carved from marble and Egyptian-inspired stained glass windows. The mausoleum built for Johannna Schricker, widow of Davenport lumber magnate Lorenzo Schricker, was designed in the Neoclassical style by Davenport architect John W. Ross and it was built by the Vermont Marble Company in 1899 at a cost of $6,489
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Henry H. Smith/J.H. Murphy House
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Murphy House is located east of downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, “Variety” Smith was a successful Davenport merchant and a member of the city council. He and his wife Mary moved to Davenport in 1850 and his downtown store, Smiths Philadelphia Variety Store, was known for its “splendid stock of fancy goods from numerous buying trips to the East. ”Mary served as the stores assistant manager and was the citys first female clerk. It is believed he hired one of Davenport’s first professional architects, Willett L. Carroll, the Smiths sold the store in 1867 and moved to East Davenport where they were engaged in agriculture. After it sat empty for a time, the house was purchased by J. H. Murphy who was a partner in the law firm of Martin, Murphy. The house was designed based on the philosophy of Orson Fowler, a leading phrenologist, while it is one of several octagon houses in the state of Iowa, it is the only one left in Davenport. The house exhibits features found in the Italianate style, hipped roof, bracketed eaves, and a belvedere on top. The entrances into the house are on the floor, which sits atop a raised basement level. They are all covered by columned porches and are located on the four points of the compass. The grounds of the estate also featured a house, stable, grape vines
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St. Luke's Hospital (Davenport, Iowa)
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St. Lukes Hospital is a former hospital building located on a bluff overlooking downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It is listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties and on the National Register of Historic Places, rev. William Stevens Perry, the second Bishop of Iowa proposed the establishment of a hospital in Davenport. The diocese had previously started hospitals in Des Moines and in Cedar Rapids, funding for the new hospital in Davenport came from money left in an account for the defunct Iowa Christian Home, which amounted to $10,176.45. With the money the Trustees of the Iowa Christian Home purchased the Daniel Newcomb residence on Eighth Street, a 20-bed hospital was created after spending $1,600 to remodel the house. St. Luke’s Hospital formally opened on April 30,1885, of the 22-member Board of Managers for the hospital,13 were women, with Mrs. Walter Chambers serving as its first president. Women would serve as the chief officer until 1946. St. Luke’s was the second hospital after Mercy Hospital. St. Luke’s was meant as a facility to complement Mercy. The operating room for the hospital was on the second floor, the day’s weather determined if surgery would be held on any given day. If it was there was enough light and surgery would proceed. If it was overcast, surgery had to be postponed, doctors and nurses did not wear surgical masks and a relative of the patient was allowed into the room during surgery in street clothes. The Davenport Training School for Nurses was begun at the hospital on August 27,1895, in 1903 the hospital added space for an additional 50 patients as well as modern operating rooms. By 1909 the hospital was treating 356 patients, changes in the operating rooms included doctors and nurse wearing surgical gowns, gloves and the instruments were sterilized. The fee for major surgery had doubled to $10 from the 1895 rate, the hospital became a charter member of the American Hospital Association in 1918. It also expanded the year by building a new facility at Bridge. The Eighth Street location was abandoned when the new hospital opened in December 1919, the old building was converted to apartments. Major expansions occurred at the hospital in the 1950s, 60s and 80s, St. Luke’s worked toward consolidating with Mercy Hospital in 1975 and 1976, but in the end they remained separate. Finally, in 1993 it was decided to merge the two hospitals, on May 24,1994 Genesis Health System was created
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J.H.C. Petersen's Sons' Store
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Petersens Sons Store also known as the Redstone Building, is a historic structure in Davenport, Iowa, United States. It is listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties and on the National Register of Historic Places, the former department store building was modeled on the Rookery Building in Chicago. Petersen was an immigrant from Schleswig in present-day Germany where he was educated until he was 16, after settling in Scott County, Iowa he worked in farming and at a match-factory. He and his three sons Max, Henry and William opened a dry goods store in 1872, by 1875 they were handling both wholesale and retail lines of merchandise from Chicago. Branch stores were opened in Clinton, Iowa and Geneseo, Illinois in the 1880s, Petersens Sons Store was built in Downtown Davenport in 1892. The structure was designed by Frederick G. Clausen, a German immigrant who moved to Davenport and it followed the latest marketing principles of the day with specialized departments under one roof. The three sons took over the operations at this time. During this same time period several competitors established operations in the city, died in 1910 and Max and Henry died in 1915. The following year William sold the store to one of their competitors, Harned, Petersens Sons store was consolidated into the Petersen-Harned-Von Maur Store and it ceased independent operations. The Redstone Building, however, would continue to house the flagship store well into the 20th century, the name of the department store chain, which expanded in several Midwest states, was simplified to Von Maur. In June 2004, the River Music Experience opened in the Redstone Building, the River Music Experience is a non-profit museum focused on music, including jazz and blues, inspired by the river. A couple of years after opening, the River Music Experience focused more on live performances on the second floor, the River Music Experience sponsors an annual music festival, River Roots Live, in Downtown Davenport along with Ribfest, each summer. Today the building also features Mojos coffee shop, a restaurant, the Petersens Sons Store is a small-scale version of Burnham & Roots Rookery Building in Chicago. It is an example of the late 19th century development of the department store. The structure is four stories in height, and built of stone on a brick foundation and it features round arched arcades around groups of vertical windows and the name plate decorated in terracotta on a slightly projecting entrance frontispiece. Diaperwork spandrels are located between the windows, the building culminates in elaborate parapets with oversized finials. At the roofline is a brick cornice and the spandrels above the third floor arches are plain. The first floor storefronts were altered, but have since been restored, other buildings that were a part of the Petersen, Harned, von Maur complex, J. H. C
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W.D. Petersen Memorial Music Pavilion
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W. D. Petersen Memorial Music Pavilion is located on Beiderbecke Drive in LeClaire Park, Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and it is commonly referred to as the LeClaire Park Bandshell. Starting in 1911 the city of Davenport started two decades of improvement to the riverfront under the leadership of Alfred Mueller, who was the mayor, the Levee Improvement Commission, which is responsible for developing the city’s riverfront, was started the same year. LeClaire Park was extensively improved by the commission between the years 1912 and 1914 and their aim was to maintain a riverfront that balanced commercial, industrial and recreational uses. The music pavilion, named for Petersen, was part of their beautification efforts, because Davenport had a large and musically inclined German population, the city had band shells located in Fejervary, Vander Veer, and Schuetzen parks as well. This is the one that remains. Its dedication in 1924 makes this structure, along with the East Park Band Shell in Mason City, the music pavilion continues to host various public events throughout the year. The Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival, Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, president George W. Bush spoke from the pavilion when he ran for reelection in 2004, as did Barack Obama in 2007 when he ran for the presidency before the 2008 Iowa Caucuses. The pavilion was designed by Rudolph Clausen from the firm of Clausen & Kruse. The music pavilion is located just to the east of the stadium along the riverfront, inspiration for the pavilion was Bertram Goodhues Spreckles Music Pavilion that was built for the Panama–California Exposition in San Diego. While less decorative, it follows the basic form and massing as the Spreckles, with flame finials. They differ in that the arch and the side pavilions are simpler in design. The music pavilion is a structure built on a raised stone podium. It is rectangular in shape with a roof which levels out to the north and south walls. The structure features distinctive ornamental details, Corinthian columns with shafts, minaret-shaped pinnacles, iron-grated windows. There is complex decorative pattern work at the roofline, many of the decorative details are finished in bold colors of blue, green, and gold, which contrast with the neutral color of the stone. The pavilion’s facade faces to the east where an outdoor seating area, to the north of the pavilion is the bust of Davenport native Bix Beiderbecke, a prominent jazz musician in the 20th century
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Prospect Park Historic District (Davenport, Iowa)
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The Prospect Park Historic District in Davenport, Iowa, United States, is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. In its 23. 2-acre area, it included 23 contributing buildings in 1984, the Prospect Park hill was listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 1993. The historic district is a neighborhood located on the western border of the Village of East Davenport. It runs along Mississippi Avenue from Eleventh Street down to East River Drive, for the most part the land was platted in 1894 by the Prospect Park Company. Several prominent Davenport businessmen were counted among its primary investors, the park land was acquired by the Davenport Board of Parks Commissioners in the same year. It was part of a city program to public parks throughout Davenport. Other parks in the program included Vander Veer, Riverview Terrace, the neighborhood itself was developed from 1895 to 1910, and is one of many Davenport neighborhoods around the start of the 20th century to focus around a park. The neighborhood housed many prominent figures, including contractors, physicians, the proximity to and commanding view of the Mississippi River kept this neighborhood fashionable long after the original families had departed. Unlike similar west end and central neighborhoods, Prospect Park has retained mostly single family usage, the neighborhood included three family enclaves that are associated with individuals who were active in Davenports commercial and industrial history in the late 19th and early 20th century. The Lanes lived on the end of Mississippi Avenue. Joseph R. Lane was an attorney, businessman, investor, representative from Iowas 2nd congressional district. His carriage house is one of the few of its size that remain in the city, one of his sons, Dick, had a large cross-gambrel house to the south. Another son, Reed, lived across the street in a multi-gabled house, the Richardson family lived beyond Prospect Park. They were involved with the Davenport Democrat and the Lee newspaper syndicate, jenness, who was secretary and treasurer of the Democrat Company, lived in a frame Neoclassical house at 1802 East River Drive. His brother Morris, secretary of the Richardson Land and Timber Company, the McClellands were involved in a major 19th century contracting firm of T. W. McClelland & Company. Wilson, who was heir to the estate, lived at 1820 East River Drive, other significant people to Davenport economic life who lived in the neighborhood included Charles J. von Maur and Rowland Harned. They were partners in a department store, Harned-Von Maur. Davenport architect Parke T. Burrows, of the prominent local firm of Temple and Burrows and he lived next door to lumber baron Edward S. Crossett in another Burrows-designed Tudor house
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Charles F. Ranzow and Sons Building
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The Charles F. Ranzow and Sons Building is a historic building located on Lot 1, Block 18 of the original town of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It is part of the West Third Street Historic District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, the building was individually listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 2000. Charles F. Ranzow owned the site by 1864 when he built a building on the site. The Sanborn Fire Insurance maps of 1886,1892 and 1910 suggest the western two-thirds of the building were constructed by 1886, the Ranzow Paint Company occupied the site for over 100 years. Wallpaper, paints and oils were sold in the section. The building currently houses the River Cities Reader and AdMospheres, an advertising agency, the building is a two-story free standing brick structure with a brick foundation. It features a bracketed metal cornice and a centralized broken pediment above. The windows on the floor have stone lintels with keystones. The two original storefronts are indicated by iron columns, access to the second floor is located between the two storefronts. The different coloration of the brick on the main façade of the building differentiates the two sections of the building
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Renwick Building
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The Renwick Building is located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983 and it is known locally for the large painted sign on the north side of the building depicting the Bix 7 Road Race. The building was built by its namesake William Renwick, who was a prosperous Davenport industrialist in the late 19th, the building combined retail and warehouse space and housed various furniture stores over the years. The storefront was modernized in the 1930s, henry Huebotters Davenport Furniture was the first business to occupy the structure after it was built. It was followed by Drake Furniture and Carpet, Iowa Furniture & Carpet Co. matthew’s Office Supply occupied the building until 2005. The building sat empty until 2012 when Restoration St. Louis, who renovated the Forrest Block. The upper floors house 18 loft-style apartments and commercial space on the main floor, in 2015 the independent music website Daytrotter moved into the commercial space. The Renwick Building is a frame and brick commercial building. The four-story building reflects the Chicago Commercial Style, the brick façade acts as the building’s skin around the steel frame, which supports the structure. This technology allowed a greater expanse of windows, which are found in this building, decorative elements are found at the top of the building. Round arch windows in a tri-partite configuration line the floor on the facade. Archiplanet Listing Front Door Iowa Leasing
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Abner Davison House
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The Abner Davison House is one of several mansions that overlook the Mississippi River on the east side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984, Abner Davison was a Davenport attorney who built his house next to that of Ambrose Fulton. The latter house is a part of the Bridge Avenue Historic District, at the time the house was built Davison was a law partner with David S. True. By the 1890s he was in a partnership with Joe R. Lane, in the 1990s the Davison house was the River Oaks Inn Bed and Breakfast. It currently houses Gilda’s Club of the Quad Cities, the house was built in two different phases and it marries two different styles. The original house was built in the Tuscan form of the Italianate style in the late 1850s of early 1860s and this was the popular style employed by Davenports wealthier citizens for their homes in this era. This section of the house is the structure on the east side. The two-story wing on the west side was added in the early 20th-century, while it shares some features with the original house, such as the hipped roof, its windows are organized in horizontal bands, which are typical of the Prairie School. Both sections are brought together with the stucco exterior, there was possibly a cupola on top of the original house that was removed as were the brackets from under the eaves. The columned porch is the decorative element that remains
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Riverview Terrace Historic District
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The Riverview Terrace Historic District is a 15. 2-acre historic district in Davenport, Iowa that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It was listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 1993, the neighborhood was originally named Burrows Bluff and Lookout Park and contains a three-acre park on a large hill. In 1984, the district included 21 buildings deemed to contribute to the character of the area. The district is significant for its architectural styles, which are representative of late-19th century, the neighborhood has local significance as being one of the few developed at the turn of the twentieth century with a park as the focal point. Riverview Terrace runs along Clay Street from Fillmore Street northwest a few blocks to the edge of the former Marycrest College campus, on the south side of the neighborhood is Riverview Terrace Park. The park is a steep hill, and offers a view of the river and Rock Island. The area around the park contains large Italianate, Georgian, beyond the park are smaller houses in the Bungalow and American Craftsman styles along with brick streets. The first house built in the district was J. M. D, named Clifton, it is an Italianate house that was built in 1853. It remained the house in the area until the 1880s. At that time it was joined by two Italian Villa-style homes, the Samuel Hoffman House and the Henry Petersen House, many of these families had previously settled in the Hamburg neighborhood. The Schrickers built two of the citys finest examples of the Georgian Revival style, the John C, Schricker House and the Selma Schricker House. The land that the park sits on was acquired by the Davenport Board of Parks Commissioners in 1894, at that time it was called Lookout Park and was renamed Riverview Terrace shortly after 1900. It, along with Prospect Park, was part of a city program to public parks throughout Davenport
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The Col Ballroom
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The Col Ballroom is located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties as the Saengerfest Halle, Davenport’s strong music tradition is due in large part to the influx of German immigrants into the city starting in the late 1840s. They founded numerous groups in the city before 1900. In 1858 the city hosted the third annual Saengerfest, or singer’s festival, the largest music event in Davenport’s history took place in 1898 when it hosted the 18th annual Saengerfest. It brought together ten local German singing groups as the United Singers of Davenport, together they organized and hosted the event. The event drew German-Americans from throughout the Midwest, and Western Union added extra German operators so as to get news of the festival out over the wires, an estimated 100,000 people attended the four-day event. The festival ended with a concert at Schuetzen Park that was attended by 12,000 people. Preparations for the festival included building a 4,000 seat auditorium for the event, a holding company built the wood structure for $4,500. After the festival ended the hall was used as a warehouse, in 1906 a second floor was added by new owners and the building was dedicated as a dance hall called The Coliseum. It was destroyed by fire on October 21,1913, in November 1914 the new Coliseum was opened by owner Leo Kerker. The new building is located across the street from where the original Saengerfesthalle was located and it was designed by local architects Clausen & Burrows. The building has a frame covered with brick. The building has a roof, and individual tiles across the top of the façade each have a letter that spells out the word “Coliseum”. A sign with the name “The Col Ballroom” hangs over the main entrance, the words are in the shape of a heart. In the early 1990s the building was renovated both inside and out. Ownership of The Col was passed to Don Wachel, the Quad Cities Mexican American Organization has owned the building since 1995. The building has operated as a ballroom and concert venue ever since, a back wall of the building has the autographs of performers who played there
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