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LeClaire Hotel
LeClaire Hotel is an historic building located in downtown Moline, Illinois, United States. It was named a Moline Historic Landmark in 1993〔 and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. The building is now an apartment building known as the LeClaire Apartments.
==History==
The building was built in 1922〔rock island county assessor files〕 on the east side of downtown Moline. At the time it was built it was the tallest building in the what today is known as the Quad Cities. It is named after Antoine LeClaire, a US Army interpreter who served at the treaty signing ceremony that ended the Black Hawk War. He and his wife, the daughter of a Sauk chief, were significant landowners in the area. Most of their property was in Iowa, but they also owned land that became the original plat for the city of Moline.〔
The LeClaire Hotel was a luxury hotel that hosted celebrities and US presidents, including John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. There was a ballroom on the fifteenth floor called the Top Hat that hosted tea dances that were accompanied by a big band orchestra. The hotel closed in the mid-1980s and sat for ten years without an owner. The Alexander Company bought the property and did an extensive renovations from 1995-1996 to convert the building into an apartment building. Monarch Investment & Management Group bought the property from Kimberly Clarke in 2015 and they plan to make all the units market-rate apartments as the affordable units become available.
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