The Scott County Courthouse in Davenport, Iowa, United States was built from 1955 to 1956 and extensively renovated over a ten-year period between 1998 and 2009.

Davenport and Rockingham, a town a mile south on the Mississippi River, contended for the county seat.

Laborers were imported to work in the mills at least 60 days before the election and Illinois citizens were invited to vote.

Rockingham again protested and the legislature of the Iowa Territory, of which Scott County had become a part of in 1838, set a new election for the summer of 1840.

Besides Davenport and Rockingham the geographical center of the county, or "Sloperville," entered the race as did Winfield, a town along the Mississippi near the mouth of Duck Creek.

[6] The town also stressed its more central location and that its proposed courthouse site was on higher ground away from the Mississippi River, and therefore would not flood.

[10] As the county grew a larger courthouse was needed and an ornate Beaux Arts structure was built in 1886.

The exterior was decorated with elements symbolizing the pioneer experience and life in the Mississippi River Valley.

Marble plaques on either side of the main entrance listed the names of the county's early pioneers.

[12] The east side of the third floor housed the James Grant Law Library, which was owned by the Scott County Bar Association.

The building continued to sink into the sandy soil it was built on, which necessitated costly repairs.

Scott County voters approved a $1.5 million bond issue in 1945 to build a new courthouse and the old structure was finally torn down in March 1955.

In 2004 a bond referendum was passed by county voters to expand the size of the jail.

[16] In 2010 the county board of supervisors approved a $176,000 plan to renovate the courthouse's 11 court rooms.

[17] Renovations include electrical wiring, technology upgrades, painting, replacing carpet and ceiling tiles and asbestos removal.

The exterior is clad in aluminum sheets that had been rolled at Alcoa's Davenport plant in nearby Riverdale, Iowa.

The new entrance pavilion has a glass and metal façade with a freestanding stone archway in front of the building.