Taylor School is one of four former grade school buildings located in Davenport, Iowa

Davenport, Iowa

Davenport is a city located along the Mississippi River in Scott County, Iowa, United States. Davenport is the county seat of and largest city in Scott County. Davenport was founded on May 14, 1836 by Antoine LeClaire and was named for his friend, George Davenport, a colonel during the Black Hawk...

, United States

United States

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 that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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. The other three buildings are the former Buchanan School

Buchanan School

Buchanan School is one of four former grade school buildings located in Davenport, Iowa, United States that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The other three buildings are the former Jackson School, Pierce School No. 13 and Taylor School...

, the former Jackson School

School Number 6 (Davenport, Iowa)

School Number 6 is an historic building located in Davenport, Iowa, United States. The building was completed in 1903. It was later renamed Jackson School and served the public school district until the 1940s. After that it served as Holy Family School. Since then it has been an office building...

 and Pierce School No. 13

Pierce School No. 13

Pierce School No. 13 is one of four former grade school buildings located in Davenport, Iowa, United States that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The other three buildings are the former Buchanan School, the former Jackson School and Taylor School. The schools were built in...

.

History

The school was built in 1897. The building had sat empty for most of the 1990s and 2000s. A renovation process to convert the building into senior housing began in 2005. The plan included building an addition as well as renovating the old school building. Financial problems plagued an earlier attempt to develop the project. Construction began again on the project in May, 2010 by the Renaissance Realty Group of Chicago

Chicago

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 and the $11 million renovation was completed in June, 2011. The building is now known as The Taylor Renaissance, and features forty-one rental units for people 55 and above.

Architecture

The square block building is two-stories high on a raised basement. It is built with red brick

Brick

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s and the basement is faced with large blocks of dressed limestone

Limestone

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. The building features a hipped roof

Hip roof

A hip roof, or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope. Thus it is a house with no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. Hip roofs on the houses could have two triangular side...

 with bracketed eaves

Eaves

The eaves of a roof are its lower edges. They usually project beyond the walls of the building to carry rain water away.-Etymology:"Eaves" is derived from Old English and is both the singular and plural form of the word.- Function :...

. The windows in the building are grouped in round-arched arcades. The arched main entrance is covered by a simple columned canopy.

See also

• Johnson School (Davenport, Iowa)
  Johnson School (Davenport, Iowa)
  Johnson School is an historic building located in the west end of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties on November 30, 2004. It was built as an elementary school in 1910 for the Davenport Community School District and ceased functioning as...
  
  , another historic former school building in Davenport

External links

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