page_title: List of tallest buildings in Iowa
section_title: Tall buildings prior to 1884
hierarchical_section_title: List of tallest buildings in Iowa / Tallest buildings / Tall buildings prior to 1884
caption_attribution_description: English: Mount Ida College Davenport 1858
context_page_description: This list of tallest buildings in Iowa ranks skyscrapers in the US state of Iowa by height for existing and proposed structures.
context_section_description: There does not seem to have been any effort to document the tallest building in Iowa prior to the construction of the State Capitol in 1884. This list shows buildings which may have been the tallest in Iowa prior to 1884, excluding church steeples.
  Other early tall building include:
  Mount Ida Female College, Davenport, 1856. First four-story dwelling, later had a high dome placed on top, may have rivaled Old Capitol in height.
  Fort Madison, 1808, probably the first two-story buildings in what would become Iowa.
caption: Mount Ida Female College in 1858, after dome was added.
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