Col. Joseph Young Block

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Col. Joseph Young Block
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Location 502 Brady St.
Davenport, Iowa
Coordinates 41°31′30″N90°34′27″W / 41.52500°N 90.57417°W / 41.52500; -90.57417 Coordinates: 41°31′30″N90°34′27″W / 41.52500°N 90.57417°W / 41.52500; -90.57417
Area less than one acre
Built 1857
Architectural style Renaissance Revival
MPS Davenport MRA
NRHP reference # 83002526 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP July 7, 1983
Removed from NRHP December 19, 2014

The Col. Joseph Young Block was located just to the north of downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The building has subsequently been torn down. It occupied the same block as the Wupperman Block/I.O.O.F. Hall, which was next door, the Old City Hall, and the Clarissa C. Cook Library/Blue Ribbon News Building. The library and this building were removed from the National Register in 2014.

Davenport, Iowa City in Iowa, United States

Davenport is the county seat of Scott County in Iowa and is located along the Mississippi River on the eastern border of the state. It is the largest of the Quad Cities, a metropolitan area with a population estimate of 382,630 and a CSA population of 474,226; it is the 90th largest CSA in the nation. Davenport was founded on May 14, 1836 by Antoine Le Claire and was named for his friend George Davenport, a former English sailor who served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812, served as a supplier Fort Armstrong, worked as a fur trader with the American Fur Company, and was appointed a quartermaster with the rank of colonel during the Black Hawk War. According to the 2010 census, the city had a population of 99,685. The city appealed this figure, arguing that the Census Bureau missed a section of residents, and that its total population was more than 100,000. The Census Bureau estimated Davenport's 2011 population to be 100,802.

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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Wupperman Block/I.O.O.F. Hall

The Wupperman Block/I.O.O.F. Hall is a historic building located just north of downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

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History

The Col. Young Block is the first building on the left in this 1880 photograph. Note the cornice that was later removed. Brady Street Davenport 1880.2.jpg
The Col. Young Block is the first building on the left in this 1880 photograph. Note the cornice that was later removed.

The building was constructed by Colonel Joseph Young, a land speculator, in 1857. [2] He probably built this building on speculation. [3] It housed retail and service businesses over the years, which included different saloons and restaurants. The building had been declining over the years and it was slated for demolition when a part of the building collapsed on August 9, 2009. [4] The building was torn down later that year.

Architecture

The Colonel Young Block was a three-story, nine bay, brick building that was built on a stone foundation. Its decorative elements were found in the tall narrow windows and their projecting hoods. When it was built it featured an ornate cornice that was removed in later years. [2] A skim coat application had been applied to the exterior. The building's original three-bay storefronts were altered with a permastone covering.

Bay (architecture) space defined by the vertical piers, in a building

In architecture, a bay is the space between architectural elements, or a recess or compartment. Bay comes from Old French baee, meaning an opening or hole.

Brick Block or a single unit of a ceramic material used in masonry construction

A brick is building material used to make walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Traditionally, the term brick referred to a unit composed of clay, but it is now used to denote any rectangular units laid in mortar. A brick can be composed of clay-bearing soil, sand, and lime, or concrete materials. Bricks are produced in numerous classes, types, materials, and sizes which vary with region and time period, and are produced in bulk quantities. Two basic categories of bricks are fired and non-fired bricks.

Cornice horizontal decorative molding that crowns a building or furniture

A cornice is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns a building or furniture element – the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the top edge of a pedestal or along the top of an interior wall. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown.

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References

  1. ↑ National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "Young, Colonel Joseph, Block" (PDF). Davenport Public Library . Retrieved 2010-11-18.
  3. ↑ Martha Bowers; Marlys Svendsen-Roesler. "Col. Joseph Young Block". National Park Service . Retrieved 2015-04-18. with photo
  4. ↑ David Heitz (August 8, 2009). "Building collapses at 502 Brady Street, Davenport". Quad-City Times . Davenport . Retrieved 2010-11-18.
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