Lend-A-Hand Club
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| Location | 105 S. Main St., Davenport, Iowa |
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| Coordinates | 41°31′30″N 90°34′26″W / 41.52500°N 90.57389°WCoordinates: 41°31′30″N 90°34′26″W / 41.52500°N 90.57389°W |
| Built | 1922 |
| Architect | Frederick G. Clausen |
| Architectural style | Renaissance Revival |
| Governing body | Private |
| MPS | Davenport MRA |
| NRHP Reference # | 83002525[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 7, 1983 |
The Lend-A-Hand Club was located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States along the riverfront. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]
History
The Lend-A-Hand Club was established in Davenport in 1886 as a chapter of the King’s Daughters Organization.[2] It became an affiliate of the national network of Lend-A-Hand Clubs.[3] The club was a place for young women who lived and worked away from home to associate in a safe environment.
Initially it occupied various downtown locations that it rented. When it was housed in a department store it offered rest and reading rooms. When it moved to larger facilities it expanded to a cafeteria, reading rooms, parlor, shower and bath, laundry, arts and crafts and a gymnasium.[2] It also provided a lecture series on various women’s topics. The Lend-A-Hand Club was the city’s main woman’s service facility and usurped any potential for the YWCA to establish itself in Davenport.[2]
Money was raised and in 1922 a permanent location was secured and a building was constructed along South Main Street opposite the Dillon Memorial. The facility contained dormitory rooms, a lounge, cafeteria, and a swimming pool.[3] The building closed as a woman’s facility in the 1960s. It was rented to the city of Davenport who converted it to elderly housing in 1973. A new building was constructed for the elderly at Third and Ripley Streets in the late 1980s and the Lend-A-Hand building was torn down in 1990.
See also
Other buildings designed by Frederick G. Clausen:
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Svendsen, Marls A., Bowers, Martha H (1982). Davenport where the Mississippi runs west: A Survey of Davenport History & Architecture. Davenport, Iowa: City of Davenport. pp. 14–6.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Lend-A-Hand Club, Davenport, Iowa". www.qcmemory.org. Retrieved 2010-11-09.
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