Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 09000764 Opened 1919 Architect Frederick G. Clausen | Built 1919 Designated DRHP January 13, 2009 Added to NRHP 23 September 2009 | |
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Location 420 W. River Drive
Davenport, Iowa Similar Iowa Reform Building, Dillon Memorial, Hose Station No 1, School Number 6, Hose Station No 4 | ||
The Linograph Company Building is located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties and on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. The building is now known as the RiverWalk Lofts .
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History
The Linograph Company Building was designed in 1919 by the Davenport architectural firm of Clausen & Kruse, the same firm that designed several other historic buildings in downtown Davenport: the Democrat Building, the Scott County Savings Bank, Hibernia Hall, the Forrest Block, Davenport Municipal Stadium (now known as Modern Woodmen Park), and the W.D. Petersen Memorial Music Pavilion.
The building was an industrial facility for the company, which made typesetting machines. The company occupied the building until at least 1940. In 1954 The Salvation Army acquired the building, and used it for a variety of purposes, including an Adult Rehabilitation Center, which relocated in 2004. MetroPlains Development of St. Paul, Minnesota bought the building in July 2007, and started converting the building into loft apartments in October of the same year. The $8 million project was completed in 2009.
Architecture
The building is a four-story, rectangular structure built of concrete on a concrete foundation. Extensions were added to the east of the original structure. Some of the windows were filled in over the years, but large windows were placed in the building's fenestration during the 2009 renovation. A loading dock on the south side of the building was covered over at some point.