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The Vander Veer Park Historic District is a historic district in Davenport, Iowa, United States, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.Over its 70.8-acre (287,000 m 2) area, in 1985 it included 66 contributing buildings, two contributing structures, one contributing site, and one contributing object.
Built in 1931 in the Italianate style in what is now known as the Village of East Davenport. The former fire station now houses the International Fire Museum. It is a contributing property in the Davenport Village Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 19: House at 821 Ripley St. April 2, 2003: 821 Ripley St.
August F. Martzahn was born in Davenport on January 26, 1861, the son of Fred Martzhan, an immigrant from Mecklenburg and Elizabeth (Beyer) Martzhan. [2] He was educated in the city's public schools and learned the butchers trade. He opened his first shop at 1701 West Third Street when he was still 18 years old.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. Downtown Davenport is defined as being all of the city south of 5th Street from Marquette Street east to the intersection of River Drive (U.S. Route 67) and East 4th Street. The locations ...
A 1915 issue of Mississippi Valley Lumberman newsletter references the use of the Funk (sic) Lumber yard by Gordon-Van Tine, [12] and the January 18, 1919 issue of The Southern Lumberman, discussing the retirement of George W. Funck, discusses the ownership of the Funck Lumberyard by Davenport's U.N. Roberts lumber company (parent company to ...
Davenport was founded in 1836 on land along the Mississippi River that was part of the Black Hawk Purchase, a 40-to-50-mile (64 to 80 km) tract of land in what is now eastern Iowa. [2] It was platted by land company stockholders that included George Davenport , a merchant and trader at Fort Armstrong and the city's namesake, and Antoine ...
The McClellan Heights Historic District is a 188.2-acre (76.2 ha) historic district in Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, at which time it included 354 buildings deemed to contribute to the historic character of the area.
The Crescent Warehouse Historic District is a 10.5-acre (4.2 ha) historic district in Downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States.The district is a collection of multi-story brick structures that formerly housed warehouses and factories.