Iowa - Postcard Past / Present Photo

Merged image of the 1940s postcard with a 2024 photo

Nov 18, 2024 Quad Cities Iowa From the archive

Municipal Stadium, Davenport, Iowa

Davenport, Iowa is home to one of the prettiest ballparks in the country, the Quad Cities River Bandits’ Modern Woodmen Park wedged between a rail line and the Mississippi River with a bridge looming over right field. Not that you’d necessarily know it from this postcard.

Sep 1, 2023 Iowa Illinois Quad Cities

Government Bridge between Davenport, Iowa and Rock Island, Illinois

The spiritual heir to the first railroad bridge to cross the Mississippi River, this is actually the fourth bridge connecting Davenport to Rock Island’s Arsenal Island.

Mar 24, 2023 Iowa Quad Cities

St. John's M.E. Church, Davenport, Iowa

The neighboring houses were razed and at some point St. John's lancet arch belfry openings were filled in, but otherwise this gothic revival church in Iowa looks like it hasn’t aged a day. Built in 1903, St. John's M.E. Church was designed by Clausen & Burrows.

Mar 21, 2023 Quad Cities Iowa

Linke Tourist Homes, Davenport, Iowa

The 1930s version of an Airbnb, tourist homes were regular-ass homes with rooms rented out to travelers by the homeowners—in this case, John and Edith Linke.

Mar 10, 2023 Iowa Quad Cities

Sacred Heart Cathedral, Davenport, Iowa

When the Irish community that gave Davenport’s Cork Hill its name outgrew their first church on this site, they hired (who else?) the Midwest’s preeminent Irish-American ecclesiastical architect to design the replacement, the Cork-born James J. Egan.