The Putnam-Parker Block, also known as City Square, are historic structures located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States.

The property includes three buildings that take up the south half of block 43 in what is known as LeClaire's First Addition.

[2] The former Putnam Building now houses a Marriott Autograph Collection hotel named The Current Iowa.

At the other end of the block on the northwest corner of Brady and West Second Streets, he built a three-story brick building in 1850.

It also provided retail space on the main level and LeClaire Hall on the upper floors.

Parker Department Store occupied the retail space of the Newcomb house at this time.

The Putnam Trust was dissolved in 2015 when the estate sold its last property, a parking lot on Main Street.

This "was the first steel frame structure in Davenport that utilized the “tall” building design for an office building, relying on the steel frame structure to achieve its height, open floor plan, and large windows.

The building contained 105 office spaces that housed some of the city's prominent attorneys, doctors, dentists, and businessmen.

In July 2017, another major renovation of the building was completed that created a boutique hotel named The Current Iowa.

Parker building was constructed by the prominent Chicago contracting firm George A. Fuller Company on the northwest corner of Brady and West Second Street in 1922.

[7] The W.C. Putnam Estate had reached a lease agreement with the store in 1916, but high building costs because of World War I delayed construction.

It was a major non-franchise company that operated a classic department store offering clothing, furniture, rugs, housewares and a toyland in the basement at Christmas.

[5] In 1970, another Davenport department store, Peteresen Harned Von Maur, bought Parker's.

Most of the Putnam Center Building housed the downtown J.C. Penney store until it moved to the newly constructed NorthPark Mall on the city's north side in 1973.

There is a connection with the Eastern Iowa Community College District's downtown campus on the north half of the block.

The Putnam and Parker buildings were originally designed by the Chicago architectural firm of D. H. Burnham & Company.

[5] Peirce Anderson, who worked for both of the firms, was the architect primarily responsible for the design of both the Putnum and Parker buildings.

Taussig & Flesch, a Chicago firm that specialized in interior department store designs, was consulted on the Parker Building.

Anderson designed the whole half block to have the same appearance and the Putman and Parker buildings are nearly identical.

The two-story Putnam Center Building was also designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White.