Alice French House (Davenport, Iowa)

The Alice French House is a historic building located on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River on the east side of Davenport, Iowa, United States.

[1] George French moved to Davenport from Andover, Massachusetts in 1855 and he served the city as mayor, banker, school board member, and a trustee of the local Unitarian society.

His daughter Alice, who was five when the family moved to the Midwest, became the first writer from Iowa with a national reputation.

Other members included George Cram Cook, Susan Glaspell, Arthur Davison Ficke, Floyd Dell, and Harry Hansen.

The Alice French House is a rather undistinguished Queen Anne-Colonial Revival combination structure, a style that was popular in Davenport at the turn of the 20th-century.