Marycrest College Historic District is located on a bluff overlooking the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States.

Marycrest was founded as a Catholic women's college in 1939 by the Congregation of the Humility of Mary (CHM) at the request of Bishop Henry Rohlman of Davenport.

The institution ended its formal association with the Catholic Church at this time, though many of the Sisters continued to teach and work at the university.

It was also part of an effort to re-market the university in order to boost enrollment, which by this time had declined to approximately 500 students.

The campus was closed at the end of its 2001–2002 school year, as a result of continued enrollment declines and persistent financial difficulties.

[5] Many of the remaining students transferred to nearby schools, including Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.

Marycrest International University was respected for its solid programs in education, social work, and nursing.

The university was a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Midwest Collegiate Conference (MCC) from 1988–89 to 2001–02.

It was bounded on the east by the Riverview Terrace neighborhood, which contains medium to large single-family homes.

Division Street was the campus' western boundary where the Putnam Museum and Fejervary Park are located.

[4] It is a 2+1⁄2-story, dark red brick, Queen Anne style house designed by Davenport architect Frederick G. Clausen.

[7] The house served a variety of purposes including a convent, dining hall, and music classrooms.

The Struck's garage, built in 1927 and used as a maintenance building by the college, is also a contributing property in the historic district.

Bedford stone is used for the belt courses between the floors, the plain coping, the vestibule trim, and the lintels and window sills.

Designed by Davenport architect Raymond C. Whitaker, the first two floors were built in 1955 for $150,000 to house freshmen students, hence its original name was Freshman Hall.

The third floor was added four years later with Whitaker again serving as architect and Tunnicliff and MacDonald as general contractors.

The main entrance is located in a recessed bay in a single-story section on the east side of the building and faces to the north.

The east-west oriented wing is three stories above grade and a partially exposed basement visible on the south side.

It is built of the same brick, it does not feature a standard main facade, the coping is covered with brushed aluminum, and most bays have a paired three-light window group.

[3] Upham Hall rises three floors on the north facade, which faces the center of the campus, and four flours and a tall foundation level on the south elevation.

Extending to the east and west are wings of five bays each whose brick is laid in an English cross bond with alternating courses of headers and stretchers.

The Tudor arched main entrance is flanked by simple stone buttresses with vertical ornamentation.

[3] It housed dormitory rooms on the west, a lounge and business offices in the center, the primary kitchen was located in the basement, and a cafeteria and a chapel on the east.

The 186-by-40-foot (57 by 12 m) Modern structure follows an irregular rectangular plan and is dominated by large plate glass windows.

It features a decorative cut stone design that portrays Marycrest's insignia that is embedded in the wall.

It was created by Sister Mary Clarice Ebert, CHM, who taught in the college's art department.

The west elevation is composed of the main entrance in the center bay with windows similar to others found in the building above it.

The south elevation features an unusual arrangement of windows and stone panels that form a cross in the center bay.

The exterior walls are composed of reinforced concrete and are partially faced with reddish-brown brick that is laid in a running bond.

It is faced with mottled tan and brown brick over concrete block on the lower portion of the walls and corrugated steel above.