Davenport ยท Downtown riverfront
The Current Iowa
The 1910 Putnam Building by D.H. Burnham and Company, Davenport's first steel-frame tall office building, on the site of the 1839 LeClaire House.
- Built
- 1910Built 1910 as the eight-story Putnam Building office tower; converted to a hotel in 2017.
- Style
- Chicago Commercial
- Architect
- D.H. Burnham and Company (contractor Gustav Wilke)
- Type
- Boutique hotel
- Area
- Downtown riverfront
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places; Inside a National Register historic district
The story
The site at Main and West Second held Antoine LeClaire’s LeClaire House, built in 1839 and remembered as Davenport’s first hotel. Attorney W.C. Putnam planned a modern office building to replace it but died in 1906; his brother Edward K. Putnam completed the Putnam Building in 1910 to a D.H. Burnham and Company design. It was Davenport’s first steel-frame ‘tall’ office building and held 105 offices, its rents benefiting the Putnam Memorial Fund behind today’s Putnam Museum. A renovation completed in July 2017 turned it into The Current Iowa.
Good to know
- Address: 215 N. Main Street, Davenport, IA 52801
Sources (2)
Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.