For the most part, the Irish immigrants who came to Davenport were laborers who worked in such industries as river men, railroads, telegraph building, and in the areas flour and saw mills.

Eventually, interest declined and it was replaced in 1881 with the Irish National Land League of America.

An 1886 Sanborn Fire Insurance map shows a Christian Chapel on the site that would become the Hibernia Hall.

Bellomy sold the Hibernian Hall in early 2014 to local developers Manoj and Manisha Baheti who plan to turn it and six adjacent buildings into loft apartments.

[5] Davenport architect Frederick G. Clausen designed the front section for the Hibernian's in January 1891.

The original church sanctuary with a two-story gabled house-style structure attached to it is intact at the rear of the building.

The building suggests the Richardsonian Romanesque style found in the vertical grouping of windows within round-arched arcades and the general sense of mass and weight.

The entrance to the upper floors of the building is found in a turned brick arch in the center pavilion.