The Hotel Blackhawk is an eleven-story brick and terra cotta building located in Downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States.

The Blackhawk has been host to several high-profile people including Presidents Barack Obama, Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, writer Carl Sandburg, and boxer Jack Dempsey.

Big bands such as Guy Lombardo and Stan Kenton played at the Blackhawk on many occasions.

Over the next twenty years, Blackhawk Hotels purchased properties in St. Paul, Minnesota and Des Moines and Mason City, Iowa.

The following year the hotel upgraded its heating system from coal and oil to natural gas.

A petition for foreclosure on the mortgage was filed in Scott County District Court on December 16, 1971. Financing by the Federal Housing Administration to convert the hotel to low-rent housing was delayed in early 1972, and Blackhawk American Corp. announced that the hotel would remain open despite the setbacks.

Marshal's sale of the property on June 28, 1974, failed to produce a buyer as did an auction in November of the same year.

The Small Business Administration, who now owned the hotel, considered selling the property for less than the $820,000 they had put into the building.

John E. Connelly, a Pittsburgh developer, bought the hotel in 1990 and it became a part of his gambling enterprise that included the President riverboat.

[5] The hotel passed to the Isle of Capri Casino in 2000 when it bought the Davenport riverboat gambling operation.

All three entities form one complex that is connected by skywalks and includes a total of 116,700 square feet (11,000 m2) of space.

The Italian Renaissance is featured on the rusticated stonework on the entry-level, the granite pedestals and terra cotta pilasters on the corners of the main façade, and the decorative pediments of the windows on the second floor.

[11] The Art Deco elements are found in the rolled of the corners of the terracotta pilasters and the streamlined feeling in general of the form itself.

The simplified Renaissance Revival style of the hotel is in keeping with the Neoclassicism of other major commercial buildings that were being built at the time in Davenport.

The resulting termination of the structure makes it more similar to the Moderne style of the nearby Hotel Mississippi, built in 1931.

Originally the lobby contained a two-story atrium, but it was enclosed in later years to create additional meeting space.