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Vander Veer Park Historic District

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730: 104: 79: 275: 283: 397: 62: 413: 111: 86: 352:, floral gardens, a large pond, picnic pavilion, and a picturesque bridge. Central Park was the first major park established by the City of Davenport. The year that it opened the city established the Board of Parks Commissioners. They acquired other properties and established residential parks similar to Central Park. The parks included both Lookout Park, later renamed 560: 302:, which originate in the city's central business district and rise above the bluffs. The park is bounded on the north by Central Park Avenue, to the east by Brady Street, south by Lombard Street, and to the west by Harrison Street. Middle- and upper-middle-class houses were built between 1895 and 1915 and are 408:
Davenport's streetcar system was electrified and expanded into residential areas beyond the original city core near the river in 1888. The Brady Street line, which traveled from Second Street to Central Park, aided the area's development as well as the neighborhoods further to the east. Established
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In 1885 the city of Davenport acquired the property that had been the Scott County Fairgrounds. It is a significant example of landscape planning, and of the civic improvements that were being made by the city in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Five years after the land was purchased and
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The establishment of Central Park increased the desirability and cost of the surrounding land for residential development. On the east side of Brady Street are the Central Park and Central Park Second additions that were platted in 1891 and 1896, respectively. The Outing Club and Temple Lane
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crews altered the park's plan by removing the corner entrances at Brady and Lombard Streets and at Harrison and Lombard Streets. The original street lights and the iron fountain were replaced with modern light standards and a stone-and-concrete fountain that was operated electrically.
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as a horsecar line in 1870, it was one of Davenport's first streetcar routes and connected the central business district with the county fairgrounds. By the end of the 19th-century, it became a commuter route for businessmen and middle-class office workers.
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Because the neighborhood was relatively affluent several of the houses were designed by prominent local architects, and three of them lived near the park. Rudolph Clausen, of
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of 33 acres (13 ha). The beautiful atmosphere of the neighborhood is marred only by the density of traffic on Brady and Harrison Streets (formerly
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style. A third house attributed to Hanssen and Harfst is the Henry Heubotter House at 2116 Main Street, which is a rambling version of the
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additions on the south side of the park, and two Norwood Park additions on the west side of Harrison were platted after 1900.
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was acquired in 1902. Other major projects in the city's beautification program included riverfront improvement that created
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Late 19th And Early 20th Century American Movements, Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian
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Central Park was renamed Vander Veer after an early Davenport park commissioner in 1911. In the 1930s
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Roughly bounded by Temple Lane, W. Central Park Ave., Brady, High, and Harrison Sts.,
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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Scott County, Iowa
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Vander Veer Park fountain is a Civil Works Administration project.
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house was located at 124 Rusholme Street. He also designed two
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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa
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Royal Neighbors of America National Home Historic District
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National Register of Historic Places in Davenport, Iowa
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The historic district consists of houses surrounding
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Davenport Motor Row and Industrial Historic District
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style. The neighborhood is anchored on the south by
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Mueller House at 2136 Brady Street. 340:improved it was named Central Park after 40:U.S. National Register of Historic Places 601:Historic Districts in Scott County, Iowa 499: 497: 495: 493: 491: 489: 246:, United States, that was listed on the 461: 298:at the head of the Harrison-Main-Brady 1220:Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival 470:"National Register Information System" 23: 1271:Historic districts in Davenport, Iowa 763:Lock and Dam No. 14 Historic District 370:W.D. Petersen Memorial Music Pavilion 16:Historic house in Iowa, United States 7: 862:National Register of Historic Places 635:Crescent Warehouse Historic District 475:National Register of Historic Places 248:National Register of Historic Places 991:Marycrest College Historic District 971:Davenport Community School District 720:West Third Street Historic District 700:Riverview Terrace Historic District 680:McClellan Heights Historic District 675:Marycrest College Historic District 1037:Sergeant John F. 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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Vander Veer Park Historic District is located in Iowa
Vander Veer Park Historic District is located in the United States
Davenport, Iowa
41°32′35″N 90°34′28″W / 41.54306°N 90.57444°W / 41.54306; -90.57444
MPS
Davenport MRA
85000784
historic district
Davenport, Iowa
National Register of Historic Places
contributing buildings
contributing structures
contributing site
contributing object


Vander Veer Park
Mississippi River
thoroughfares
Queen Anne
Tudor Revival
St. Paul Lutheran Church
Outing Club
trapezoid
US 61
New York City
same name

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