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Wickham and Company of Council Bluffs was the contractor. The building is 86 feet (26 m) tall, and it was historically the tallest building in downtown Council Bluffs. [2] [3] It follows a rectangular plan in the basement and first floor, and from the second to the seventh floor it follows an L-shaped plan. The exterior features a tripartite ...
Council Bluffs: 2: Bennett Building: Bennett Building. August 8, 2001 : 405 West Broadway Council Bluffs ... Spanned Missouri River to Council Bluffs, Iowa; ...
Council Bluffs is a city in and the county seat of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States. [9] The population was 62,799 at the 2020 census, [6] making it the state's tenth most populous city, and the most populous city in Southwest Iowa.
Council Bluffs was founded in the late 1840s as Kanesville by Mormons. When Brigham Young called all people of the faith outside of Utah to Salt Lake City in 1852, the community ceased to be majority Mormon. It was renamed Council Bluffs in 1853. The buildings here are among the earliest extant commercial buildings in the city. [2]
Category: Buildings and structures in Council Bluffs, Iowa. ... YMCA Building (Council Bluffs, Iowa) This page was last edited on 18 May 2024, at 15:12 (UTC). Text ...
Roughly bounded by Worth, High School Ave., Clark Ave., and the western side of Bluff St., Council Bluffs, Iowa: Coordinates: Area: 32 acres (13 ha) Architectural style: Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements
The first railroad arrived in the city in 1867, and by 1898 there were 11 truck line railroads that terminated here. That made Council Bluffs an excellent place for the transfer and distribution of goods. [2] Chicago based McCormick Harvesting Machine Company had this four-story brick structure built in 1894 as one of their branch houses. Those ...
In addition to residential architecture, there are two churches and the city's water works that are contributing properties: St. Mary and St. George Coptic Orthodox Church (c. 1925), the Council Bluffs Waterworks (reservoir, 1941 Works Progress Administration; pump house, 1947), and the Community of Christ Church (1951).