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1718 MARQUETTE - DAVENPORT IOWA

$163,900

OWN A PIECE OF HISTORY - Elegant carved wooden pillars, Huge 23X14 dining room with beamed ceiling, large living room, family room, 5 large bedrooms, 1, 3/4 and half baths, a Historic gem.  Updated kitchen and kitchen breakfast room, custom new heated 3 car garage with recreational vehicle door.  Garage was built for $37,000.  Has Loft and other plus features.  Owner is packing, so there are boxes everywhere right now.  When you look, you see that this is not just another home.  3,324 sq/ft of historic charm.  Bring your antiques, this home will hold all of them.  Historical significance is written up by a local architectural historian, and can be found just below the pictures.

		Long time owner is packing.  Dr. Bell moved this home to this site many years ago and put it on a new foundation.  So you have a huge modern basement, newer plumbing and electrical in this historic home.  As a result, the basement could be finished out if someone so desired.  The woodwork is gorgeous and is the reason the home was purchased.  All the walls and ceilings are in great shape.  The main floor is a museum of quality workmanship for the period.  If you want more space, a place to park your RV, want a home with character and not just another modern box, then come take a look at this home.  YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.   Solid home with potential for even more.

The following was written up by Jan Sturgis, Architectural Historian

1718 Marquette

Davenport, IA 52804

Prairie Style

Circa 1905

            From the moment one enters this high-end vernacular house, one is awed by the extreme attention to detail.  The Prairie style of architecture is evident as one reaches the entry porch with its extreme sense of massiveness and the way, like the structure itself , it seems to hug the ground, a tenet of  Frank Lloyd Wright who popularized this style across the American landscape.

            The massive front door  with its two side lights are filled with fanciful leaded glass, adding a sense of classicism to this Prairie beauty!  The original octagonal floor tiles remain as a testament to timelessness of this stunning vestibule.

            Originality abounds in the reception hall starting with the original brass light fixture to the classical balusters (spindles) on the staircase to the unique rounded newel post with the semi-classical wreath applied to its side.  Too, the stunningly patinated oak woodwork  and classic narrow oak floor offer a welcome to occupant and visitor alike.

            The two parlors offer their own very special amenities.  From the columns that divide the front parlor from the reception hall to the very unique arched arrangement of columns between the formal and informal parlors, the beauty of a past era reigns supreme. As a Victorian leftover the columns feature the egg and dart design hailing from the ancient Greeks, signifying life and death, at a time when babies were born in the upstairs bedrooms and the funerals held in the parlors.  The ornate capitals are composite combining both the rams horn affect of the Ionic and the acanthus leaves so prominently evident on the Corinthian columns.  And all this classical grandeur, the very stark, horizontal fireplace with its yellow bricks could have come out of any of  Sullivan’s or  Wright’s very high end Prairie houses!

            Before leaving the special amenities of yesteryear, the dining room is of special note.  From the simple beamed ceiling to the stunning geometric Prairie art glass window and the room’s plate rail, one can only imagine the scrumptious meals in this elegant room.

            The kitchen offers many updated and period amenities.  The richly stained oak cabinets dating from the 1970s are from floor to ceiling on two sides of this room.  Too, the large island offers a unique 3-well sink.  And let us not forget the breakfast room and the ½ bath off either end of the kitchen.

            Upstairs offers 3 large well-lit bedrooms with unique corner windows virtually abutting each other.  An additional bedroom at the rear of the house was for the maid. The beautiful yellowish woodwork is probably Ash or Poplar and the upstairs bath is as unique as they come with an original showed configured above the large, thickly ceramiced tub.  Typical for the period, there are an abundance of closets.

            Rarely available is a house of this caliber with so much history.  And only three families have resided in it.  Why don’t you make yours the fourth!   

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