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Old Pierce Street School Site Is Sold; Board Accepts $41,025 Bid
This property...is considered "an excellent potential location for housing the elderly. It was the site of the old Pierce Street School, which was built in 1884 and demolished in 1955. This picture was taken from the intersection at Franklin Avenue…
Set Up $100,000 For School Work; Maintenance Budget $25,000 Over 1954
Old Pierce Street School...what should be done with it? Noting broken windows and general disrepair, one Board member says it has "become an eyesore."
Pierce Scool [sic]
Pierce Scool [sic]...long a Council Bluffs landmark, is schedule for demolition sometime in the near future. The 70-year old structure may make way for a modern steel cottage-type school building.
Old School Is Stripped
Workmen are silhouetted against the sky at Madison School Wednesday as demolition work moved into its second day. The shingles, tarpaper and wood from the roof litters the ground in front of the 1882 structure. Demolition of the walls was to begin…
Old McMillen School District
One of Council Bluffs older landmarks, the McMillen School built in 1878, will be razed in a few weeks. The School Board is accepting bids on the demolition contract until Aug. 6. The building located at eighth [sic] Avenue and Fifteenth Street has…
Old McMillen School May Be Completely Remodeled; Depending On Bond Issue
Sketch of McMillen School...shows one-story unit for kindergarten and first grade with separate entrance. Entrance to other classrooms is shown at the side. Sketch by Architect B.G. Larson
Urge Reopening of McMillen Unit; 430 Sign Petition Given School Board
Reopening of McMillen School...would include only that part to the left of the dotted line. The older front part would either be razed or walled off to prevent its use. The building is now used for storage and repair shop for school equipment.
Some of the Council Bluffs Grade School Buildings
James McMillen school is located at 1521 Eighth avenue.
There's No Play When The Pupils Are Away; In The Halls Of Learning
Much Neater Now...is this view of the terrace at Harrison School. Borken concrete collected at the site has been converted into a long retaining wall on the north and east property lines.
Harrison School Is Natural Place For Harrison Brothers
William Henry Harrison
Harrison School Is Natural Place For Harrison Brothers
Benjamin Harrison
Harrison School decision near
Harrison School...awaits a decision on its fate. The Council Bluffs School Board took action Tuesday to solicit bids to have the building sold or torn down. It has been uninhabited for several years.
Schools in Bluffs Keep Advancing
Harrison School...received this addition in December 0f 1950. It was one of the first buildings under the expansion program.
Some of the Council Bluffs Public Grade School Buildings
Harrison school is located at Harrison street and McGee Avenue
Death for old Dodge
A broken window in the old Dodge School tells the story. The 1884 school doesn't have long to live.
But it really hasn't been alive since it was closed in 1975. it was going to be a museum, and then an art center. But vandals and inflation…
But it really hasn't been alive since it was closed in 1975. it was going to be a museum, and then an art center. But vandals and inflation…
Old Bluffs school is just fading away
Third Street School...was the original name for the old building. The date 1884 is cut in stone over the main entrance.
Old Bluffs school is just fading away
A Framing Plank...is wrestled from the first floor by Bob Riche as seen through a broken window. The lumber will probably wind up in a farm building.
Birthday party for Kirn School
Birthday Greetings...are extended to Gerald W. Kirn Junior High School by School Board members Michael O'Bradovich and Michael Winchester, and Gerald W. Kirn, center. The cornerstone building was laid Dec. 13, 1900.
Remember when?
Remember when the Second Avenue School, 2209 Second Ave., provided the "Three Rs' to hundreds of Council Bluffs youngsters? The school was built in 1892 and replaced in 1950 by Edison School. Note the unusual cornices in the architecture and the…
Some of the Council Bluffs Public Grade School Buildings
Second Avenue school, 2209 Second avenue, has been the location of one of the city's largest supervised playground projects this summer.