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The J. Monroe Parker–Ficke House is a historic building located in the College Square Historic District in Davenport, Iowa, United States. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [2] The house was individually listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 2003. [1]
2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story rowhouse from 1870; Davenport MRA. 33: Iowa Reform Building: Iowa Reform Building: November 18, 1983 : 526 W. 2nd St. Built c. 1892 to house a German-language newspaper, the Iowa Reform, which remained in print until 1943. It continues to serve as a commercial building; Davenport MRA.
The Henry H. Smith/J.H. Murphy House is a historic building located on the east side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1] In 1997 it was listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties as the Octagon House. [2]
The house was added to Iowa's most endangered properties list in 2013. [10] In May 2014 the city of Davenport began the process of condemning the house. It was the first time the city has attempted to save an abandoned house through condemnation. [11] In September 2014 the city purchased the house through condemnation for $34,000. [8]
This house was built for Thomas C. Wilkinson, who had been a bricklayer in St. Louis, Missouri. He retired to Davenport in 1854 and moved to Rose Hill Farm. He had this house built in 1860. His wife was Ellen McManus Atkinson whose father was Judge James McManus, and he lived on a farm just to the east. On Christmas Eve in 1876, Wilkinson ...
Martzahn organized the Davenport Slaughter & Rendering Company, which was the only such business in the city and became one of the largest in Eastern Iowa. [2] The company's specialty was rendering and dealing in hides. Martzahn married Minnie Schmidt in 1884 and they raised a son. He built this house along West Third Street in 1911.
The Hebert family continued to live here until 1898. Joseph Herbert was the city clerk in the 1890s and was the last family member to reside in this house. This house was built during Davenport's first major growth period and is typical of the architecture built in the city in the 1850s and 1860s. [2]
St. Katherine's Historic District is located on the east side Davenport, Iowa, United States and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.It is the location of two mansions built by two lumber barons until it became the campus of an Episcopal girls' school named St. Katharine's Hall and later as St. Katharine's School.