Old World Davenport Iowa 

Fascinating video. I grew up in Davenport and still live in the area. These photos are bittersweet. So many of these buildings have been lost to time, neglect, progress. This video really brings back the memories.

We call the Coliseum, The Cal Ballroom. It has been used for bingo, concerts, etc. Thanks for covering Davenport.

I used to work on the HVAC system in the Davenport Hotel. It collapsed last year with some people possibly still in it.

Those Mississippi Valley towns are something else!

Thanks for posting this I'm from Nebraska and I visited a friend living in Davenport about 6 years ago right by the river in the heart of the old town and she lived in the ghetto in this old Victorian Home. This was about 4 years before I got into Old World stuff, and I still think about all the structures I saw in my short visit there. It really made me stop and think: "If we could build all these magnificent structures in the past, then why are so many left to rot away now?" I've been extremely into this subject for awhile and there's so much stuff everywhere even here in SW Nebraska in the middle of nowhere. I was looking just last week for an Old World Davenport video and you sir are the real MVP. Thank you

At 24:32, the photo you see is the old Jumer's Castle Lodge, which I believe was built in the 70's. I also think that this is all wooden structure. I do not think that this is old world but who really knows, although since its recent, people may be able to remember it's actual construction. I stayed here on my honeymoon and it was nice but was falling apart and getting outdated (this was in 2003). As far as the Blackhawk Hotel, I stayed there and actually had my prom there. This is something I do believe is older than what the narrative states. The inside is where it counts especially with all of the other buildings that you're reviewing. Anyway, good stuff you're putting out here and you're definitely bringing some questions to light.

Davenport, Moline, East Moline, Rock Island. I worked on a riverboat casino that cruised in the QCA.Riverdrive, still beautiful ❤️

I’m from Davenport, recently we had a large old building in Downtown partially fall over due to a lack of maintenance from the landlord, and was then immediately demolished

Very good, thank you. Growing up and seeing these old buildings, always made me think there is something that I wasn’t being told about the past.

Sweet my home town.

Add Dubuque and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The old river towns are covered with architectural gems, lost history.

@ min 4:12, the home at 510 W 6th St. you show is where I lived as a child from 1959-1963, ages 7-11. It was built around 1860-65. What you called a bell tower is actually a lookout tower where you could see the Mississippi River. This block sat up on a high bluff just above the downtown and riverfront. There is a high stone wall at the street level and then there are many terraces up to the house with about 90 wide palatial steps and stone landings. There are ornate carved marble fireplaces and beautiful carved wooden doors throughout. This picture is how the home looked when I lived there with the huge porch. My bedroom was the big bay window on the right main level. So fun to see this again, thank you !

. . . my good sir at Old World Exploration, you are relentless in your quest and throughly exhausting in your investigations • i utterly appreciate your passion devotion and dedication • thank you • • • as a native New Yorker who’s father was an architect that immigrated from Greece, i remember walking the streets with my dad and his admiration of what i now know to be Old World structures and recall that at the same time his face also held that distinct quizzical look which denoted that there was a discord in his thought process. Upon retiring home later, when we would look over architecture books together on famous landmark NY structures he had the same look of puzzlement when going over the magnificence of those buildings. Do you know of any structures in Greece that would warrant further investigation outside of the well known monasteries of Meteora in the mountains? I am currently residing here with my boy and would love any input and your opinion on the subject. Thank you in advance and God Bless . . . P.S. - i really loved your episode “Old World Fort Wort”with your young Old World Explorers (your children) with their commentary, their questions and your gentle way of explaining such subtleties to them with kind patience . . .

really enjoyed yesterdays podcast with marvelous old world discussing the dubious construction photos of chicago worlds fair. your insight about the largest buildings being zeppelin hangers is brilliant! future ground-penetrating radar and excavation of the massive foundations of these buildings will reveal the truth. great work!

Another great video and commentary! The Birdseye views are so full of information. not only does it show the superior engineering, architecture, and drafting of that age but also their 4th dimensional perspective. You see the boat in motion (present,) with a couple hours behind it (past) and the goal around the bend, a few hours in the (future.) Amazing!

Davenport, not a big town - home of Palmer College of Chiropractic - sporting no less than 6 bridges and two lock & dams spanning the Mighty Mississippi - 700 meters wide @ Davenport - 7 million cubic feet per second (200,000m3-per second)

These old world buildings are so beautiful living in that day around that would inspire me to be my absolute best in live with class

Nice job OWE. I always thought of Davenport as just a farming town in 1900. Much more going on, it seems. Cheers!

Your channel is doing so well! Happy for you!

So awesome, love the Quad Cities, very cool to see the Confederate Cemetery on the Rock Island Arsenal. I remember paying respects to the Confederate soldiers as a Boy Scout so they didn't die alone up North so far from home.

at 2:40 The Davenport Hotel collasped a year ago killing three people and displacing hundred or so. Now a green space while the lawsuits go through the courts. The house with what you call a belltower is a widow's walk. A lot of riverboat captains had houses with them so their wives could watch for their boats on the river.

At 24:32, the photo is of the Jumer's Castle Lodge in Bettendorf, IA. It was built in the 1970's in a Bavarian style. It was finally torn down in 2016 and replaced with a box. That is to say the building that replaced it on the site took its inspiration from a shoe box with none of the charm.

Thanks for sharing this. I do some contemporary street photography in Davenport. I would have been nice to have had some addresses of the buildings you showed.

As ALWAYS NICE JOB!!! KEEP IT UP

i really really really like your work. thanky

Exceeded my expectations! OMG! Really?! Thanks again!

Nice mid week Tartar sauce 👍

Ayeeee, I live about half an hour from Davenport

Very cool video thanks for putting it together

25000 homes 20000 people founded a year earlier dam like beavers pop up a town in a weak

I find it very hard to believe that 20k ppl built all that in 20 years

Beautiful bank prob added top steal part

I enjoy this site very much. Thank you.

yep that monument sits in front of cental hs on main st. would love to hear your theories about the great architecture and infrastructure. there could be more to it. with the military arsenal and masonic temples. also there is a very heavy german and catholic influence. cool to see the old coliseum and never knew possibly the first bank in america was in davenport. thank for the vid!

I'm from Davenport. My grandfather is buried on the Arsenal

From the area, many historical beauties here.

Davenport is home now to about 100,000.

Many of these structures seem like they were decapitated early! Many are missing antiquitech ..

that monument is still there in the middle of Main street

I LOVE Davenport! Lots of old world dirt there! I went to Palmer College of Chiropractic in the late 90’s. Chiropractic was born in 1895 by DD Palmer. He was exposing injected pharmaceutical fraud back then. He was the original gangsta. I started my deep dive of looking into late 1800’s history back in late 2019 due the passion I have for my profession. I started diving into old books written by DD and BJ Palmer. I’d love to share with you some of the details about the college and profession that I think you would find compelling in regards to other head scratching, narrative bending subjects of the time in Davenport, Iowa. The second Free Mason building you showed is now owned by Palmer Chiropractic. I graduated there…mind blower! The Palmer Mansion is quite spectacular as well. This area is a goldmine of not only old world structures but also the birthplace of the medical veil piercing profession of chiropractic. Thanks for all your hard work. I love your channel!

the builders of first presbysterian church built an almost identical church in galesburg,illinois called central congregational church.

I wonder if any libraries have any articles or books that describe any information

So many Grand Buildings, for so few people.

I'm from that area.

Birdseye view maps but no blueprints?

There is a lot of mudflooded buildings there

24:30 Jumers Castle Lodge

24:30 Jumer's Castle Lodge Hotel, not old(1973), not there anymore.

I wonder if the Paradise CA fire was anything like older CA 1906 SF city fire.

Same Building structures in countries like Serbia , Hungary , Romania.......

Whomever rendered the bank construction photo, did an almost convincing detail. But failed to recognise the routine of masonry construction . I'd suggests using, After effcts and photoshop combined. To give the results you were hoping for. You're welcome.

Davenport, also known as a sofa and a writing desk, no idea why? Is it the founded towns main industry?

Is this a bit? If so we’ll done, it’s interesting and hilarious

Grandpa rutherford lived there near the railroad tracks in the early 1930s.

It looks like different phases of building, the oldest at 27:42, Grace Church another phase.

in san antonio i honestly think that the true occupancy of the tall buildings in downtown could be no more than 30%.

That definitely doesn’t match the narrative. I plugged your channel the other day, so maybe you’ll be getting more viewers. Thanks OWN for a very interesting video.

So they built buildings with massively high ceilings in a state with brutal cold in winter. How did they heat these buildings? At what cost?

There’s plenty of plain in new buildings though.

And don't forget it is the home for the Palmer School of Chiropractic.

When did Palmer Chiropractor School start?

"False Flags" everywhere in old photos. Davenport, Iowa, one of the first, if not the First Bank open ? I guess Boston and New York grew the corn back then.

Please do some research on the Olmecs the mould builder's in south and north Amexem now called the Americas, later on the Olmecs are called the Moors are the Indegenious to these shore's renamed Saracens arabs muslims when in Europe, British architect Christopher wren said all the foundation for the architectural building designs in medieval Europe which they labelled as Gothic, is all Sarecenic/ Moorish Monarchs

These are tartarian structures built long before settlers came to America ever wonder why every city across America has the same style building…. Our current civilization didn’t build them. The construction pictures are clearly doctored . Thanks for covering this Oh and btw the those dome structures and pillar looking antennas were used to harness free energy

recycled DAVENPORT IOWA DAD JOKE of the day [Q] Do trees, defecate, in the FOREST? [A] of course they do, From where else,would we get, number 2 PENCILS?

I would like to commend you for what you're attempting, would be very enjoyable and educational, and challenge you to up your game, specifically in terms of the low resolution of image scans you're displaying. Most of the pics in this video are obviously pixellated from simple low dots per inch scanning, and it gets exponentially worse when you zoom in to display terribly distorted details. Several times you speak of intricate brick work or structural details which we would like to see, while showing us nothing but square digital pixels. If you plan to produce a video in any kind of HD, then your source scans need to be at least that resolution, and much higher if you intend to zoom. Yes, you'll have larger file sizes, which is no excuse- you can tack on giant external usb hard drives for under 80 bucks these days. I offer this because you are clearly trying to put out a professional production to over 18,000 subscribers, and the image quality is not up to the sources and script. Thanks for reading.

Slow talking from narrator ... boring

His-story all the way.

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