The 1850s are shaken awake by the arrivals of our gazes upon the limestone blocks of houses erected that decade.

Shaken awake and made to sing for our amusement!

 

Verily these are 310 & 314 Gaines Street in Davenport, Iowa. It says here that the five bays at the right are from 1853; the middle three bays are from 1856; and the right four bays are from either 1859 or 1867.

 

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In downtown Davenport, Iowa, on May 20th, 2023, the John Hiller House, a/k/a the HIller Building and the Schick Apartments, on the east side of Gaines Street, north of West 3rd Street; 74000810 on the National Register of Historic Places, also a a "contributing property" in the West Third Street Historic District, 83003741 on the National Register of Historic Places.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Davenport (7013507)

• Scott (county) (2000642)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• apartment houses (300005707)

• Federal (300107905)

• Greek Revival (300021456)

• historic buildings (300008063)

• historic districts (300000737)

• historic houses (300008064)

• light brown (300127503)

• limestone (300011286)

• oblique views (300015503)

• row houses (300005461)

• stonemasonry (300386948)

• three-story (300163795)

 

Wikidata items:

• 20 May 2023 (Q69306805)

• 1850s in architecture (Q76415487)

• Black Hawk Purchase (Q879963)

• contributing property (Q76321820)

• Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area (Q7268261)

• Eastern Iowa (Q14214551)

• Hiller Building (Q5763057)

• May 20 (Q2579)

• May 2023 (Q61312956)

• National Register of Historic Places (Q3719)

• Quad Cities (Q1660598)

• vacant building (Q56056305)

• West Third Street Historic District (Q7986667)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Dwellings—Iowa (sh2004003765)

• Historic apartment houses (sh2008002178)

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