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The library began with a reading room in the Le Claire Hotel established in 1839. [4] Another reading room and circulating library were announced in an 1853 article in the Davenport Gazette. The library eventually leased an entire building. Although then named the Young Men's Library Association, it was managed by the community's women.
A new exhibit at the Davenport Public Library at Main will showcase paintings of the city by a local artist. Paintings of Davenport by T.F. Hempel will go on display starting on Friday, November 1 ...
On July 6, 1877, Clarissa Cook contacted the Library Association, and offered to donate $10,000 for a library building. [4] She stipulated that the property had to be bought by the people of Davenport. She donated the money in memory of her husband who had desired to establish a library in the town.
The period of significance for the historic district is from 1850, when the present St. Anthony's Church was begun, until 1968 when the present Davenport Public Library was completed. [2] During the intervening years buildings were constructed for civic, commercial, light industrial, entertainment, multiple dwelling, and fraternal uses.
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The Col. Young Block is the first building on the left in this 1880 photograph. Note the cornice that was later removed. The building was constructed by Colonel Joseph Young, a land speculator, in 1857. [2]
The J.H.C. Petersen's Sons Wholesale Building was a historic building located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1910 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1] 1910 Sanborn Map shows the Wholesale Building connected to the original store across the alley.
Among them was the historical library of the Davenport Public Museum, now the Putnam Museum. [3] H.E. Schraff Store occupied first-floor retail space from around 1928–1956, and men's clothing store Simon & Landauer from 1933 to 1964.