First Federal Savings and Loan Association Building, Modern bank building in Downtown Davenport, United States.
The First Federal Savings and Loan Association Building is a three-story Modern movement structure in downtown Davenport, clad in white Vermont marble over reinforced concrete. Designed by William F. Cann of the Bank Building and Equipment Corp. of St. Louis, it uses mass, form and masonry instead of a glass curtain wall. Its entrance was off Main Street on the west side.
First Federal Savings and Loan Association was incorporated in December 1933 and survived the Great Depression. It leased the Lane Building in 1936 and bought it three years later. The bank completed this building in 1966 on the site of its previous one, when it was the largest savings and loan association in eastern Iowa and western Illinois. It became First Federal Savings Bank in 1993 and was folded into Mercantile Bank two years later.
The building's name recalls the First Federal Savings and Loan Association, chartered in December 1933 and one of the Davenport institutions that survived the Great Depression. It later became First Federal Savings Bank in 1993, was absorbed by Mercantile Bank two years later, and since 2018 has housed Scott Community College classrooms.
The building occupies the site of First Federal's earlier offices at Main Street and West Third Street in downtown Davenport. It is now part of the Scott Community College urban campus, connected to the neighboring First Midwest building; the 2018 renovation kept the marble exterior intact while reconfiguring the interior.
The original design included an interior drive-through lane where vehicles could enter from Main Street and exit onto West Third Street. This feature represented an innovative approach to banking services during the time it was built.
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