705 Main St., Davenport, Iowa. County/parish: Scott.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 07, 1983. NRIS 83002481.
Part of Davenport MRA (NRIS 64000149).
1 contributing building.
The Peter J. Paulsen House is a historic building located on the hill above downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. The Queen Anne style residence was built by Peter J. Paulsen, who operated a grocery store on West Second Street. It exhibits the features that are characteristic of this popular late 19th-century style: an asymmetrical composition, irregular roofscale, and a corner tower with a conical roof. The tower itself rises out of an oriel window on the first and second floors. The Paulsen house also maintains some if its exterior features, including scallop-shaped wall shingles in the gables and narrow clapboards. The south gable also contains a Palladian window and the front gable a semicircular window. The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75337577