Dawley House
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| Location |
127 S. 2nd St. Le Claire, Iowa |
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| Coordinates | 41°35′48″N 90°20′41″W / 41.59667°N 90.34472°WCoordinates: 41°35′48″N 90°20′41″W / 41.59667°N 90.34472°W |
| Built | 1851 |
| Architectural style | Vernacular Italianate |
| Governing body | Private |
| MPS | Houses of Mississippi River Men TR |
| NRHP Reference # | 79003699 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 13, 1979 |
The Dawley House is an historic property located in Le Claire, Iowa, United States, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979.[1] The property is part of the Houses of Mississippi River Men Thematic Resource, which covers the homes of men from Le Claire who worked on the Mississippi River as riverboat captains, pilots, builders and owners.[2]
History
Born in Vermont in 1811, Daniel V. Dawley worked in Troy, New York and New York City before he moved to Iowa in 1834. He started his first river job as a clerk on the steamer Hero two years later. Dawley spent the next 38 years working on the river as either a clerk or captain. He worked on boats such as the Galena, the Henry Clay, and he was a part owner of the Golden Era. During his career he did a lot of work for the Minnesota Packet Company.[3] In 1881 Dawley was appointed the Le Claire postmaster. He died in 1893. His single-family house was converted into the The Crane & Pelican Cafe.
Architecture
The Dawley House is a two-story brick structure built on a stone foundation. It is a variation on the vernacular Italianate style.[3] The bricks used in the construction were manufactured locally, and the structure features clean proportions and simple lines.[2] The main facade of the house is three bays wide and four along the side elevations. The bays are separated by Flat brick pilasters that have narrow caps just below the cornice level. The house is capped by a shallow hipped roof with narrow eaves with paired brackets. The main entrance is located off-center to the left. The porch, which extends across the front of the facade, and is probably of a later construction.[3] It is influenced by the Gothic Revival style and features thick chamfered posts. The windows are 6 over 6 sash with flat lintels and sills. Built onto the rear of the house is a single-story kitchen wing. Like the main house block, it is capped with a bracketed hip roof and wooden cornice. The small porch on the south side of the kitchen wing is supported by attenuated columns. The lot on which the house is built slopes steeply to the east. It features a stone retaining wall extends across its south side.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-11-03.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Houses of Mississippi River Men Thematic Resource". United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2011-01-26.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "NRHP Inventory-Nomination: Dawley House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-04-09.
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