Built 1881 NRHP Reference # 84001485 | MPS Davenport MRA Opened 1881 Added to NRHP 27 July 1984 | |
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Location 628 Kirkwood BoulevardDavenport, Iowa People also search for Isaac W. Harrison House | ||
The Thomas Murray House is located on the east side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984.
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History
Thomas Murray built this house in 1881 shortly after his marriage to Eva Daniels. He had worked as a surveyor for Scott County for more than a decade. Murray was working as Davenport's City Engineer when this house was built.
Architecture
The Thomas Murray House is typical of the Italianate style houses that were being built in Davenport after the American Civil War. It forsakes the simplicity of Greek Revival decorative elements that was found in earlier Italianate houses for the verticality and millwork embellishment of the Victorian expression. The house features a square form, hipped roof with deck, roof cresting, projecting side pavilions and a prominent, bracketed porch that wraps across the front of the house and around the corner of the east side. The cornice has brackets and a scalloped motif that is applied to the frieze.