{"id":12129,"date":"2020-08-29T09:18:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T14:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=12129"},"modified":"2025-05-15T10:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T15:16:47","slug":"the-hotel-davenport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2020\/08\/29\/the-hotel-davenport\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hotel Davenport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 1907, a modern era of buildings began in the growing city of Davenport with the completion of a new hotel on the corner of Main and Fourth Streets. This hotel poised mid-way between Union Station and the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad stations at the prime location of 324 Main Street in LeClaire’s 1st Addition boasted six stories and other attractive features for its guests. Designed in the Renaissance Revival architectural style, the delicate terra cotta adornments on its corners and the symmetrical layout of the building, were eye-capturing to the public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the ground was broken on April 11, 1906, the businessmen and the financial supporters of this venture had Temple, Burrows, and McLane Architects draw up plans for this fire-resistant building. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A statement from Temple and Burrows, Architects- P.T. Burrows, Architect in charge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Erection of the Davenport Hotel inaugurated a period of building that would bring Davenport’s central business district fully into the era of the “tall buildings.” Despite loss of the original cornice, Temple & Burrows’ hotel retains a very high degree of integrity and continues to be an import feature of the City’s commerical center. <\/p>\nBowers, Martha, and Marlys Svendsen-Roesler. Architectural\/Historical Survey<\/em>. <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Below are image captures of two sheets of plans for this new hotel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n