[2] In order to remain a leading commercial city in the state, the businessmen in the community saw a need for a quality hotel.

They banded together and raised the $350,000 required for construction of the Hotel Burlington to serve the city's business, convention and tourist needs.

Davenport architects Seth E. Temple and Parke T. Burrows designed the original seven-story L-shaped Renaissance Revival structure.

The hotel proved so successful that a new $100,000 wing was added in 1923, in the rear, on the eastern side, giving the structure its current U-shaped form.

This article about a property in Des Moines County, Iowa on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.