The partial collapse of an apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, has caused local outrage and left questions over the city’s enforcement of building code violations. The former Davenport Hotel at 324 Main Street, designed by Temple & Burrows opened in 1907, marking the introduction of taller buildings to downtown Davenport. The Renaissance Revival style brick- and steel-structured building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and was converted into apartments with ground floor retail in the 1980s. Upon its opening, a local newspaper declared it a “monument to the enterprise, growth and development” of Davenport.
Late in the afternoon on May 28,
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