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The Max Petersen House, also known as the Petersen Mansion, is a historic building located on the west side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979. In 2004 it was included as a contributing property in the Marycrest College Historic District.
J.H.C. Petersen was an immigrant from Schleswig in present-day Germany where he was educated until he was 16. [4] 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.
The Petersen House is a 19th-century federal style row house in the United States in Washington, D.C., located at 516 10th Street NW, several blocks east of the White House. It is best known for being the house where President Abraham Lincoln died on April 15, 1865 after being shot the previous evening at Ford's Theatre located across the street.
The Petersen House became a museum in the 1930s, and to this day, it attracts tens of thousands of visitors who want to wander the house, remembering the tragic events that had occurred there so ...
The Philip and Anna Parrish Kirchner Log House is a historic building located north of Peterson, Iowa, United States. The Kirchners moved from the Albany, New York area to southwest Clay County in 1867, and built this log house the same year. It is located on part of the property that his older brother A.J. "Gust" Kirchner claimed in 1856.
The Lambrite–Iles–Petersen House was designed by one of Davenport's first professional architects John C. Cochrane, and it was built in 1856. Soon after the house was built Lambrite lost everything in the Panic of 1857. Several other people owned the house until it was purchased by Thomas Iles around 1863. [6]
It was built in 1888 for Max Petersen who was a partner in his family's prosperous retail store, the J.H.C. Petersen's Sons' Store. [7] The house served a variety of purposes including a convent, dining hall, and music classrooms. The second house is the Dr. Kuno Struck House, which was also called Clifton Manor. It was acquired by Marycrest in ...
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.